What kind of impontant functionality is not there ?

What kind of impontant functionality is not there ?

Posted May 6, 2008 9:04 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Rietveld: a new code review tool by dberkholz
Parent article: Rietveld: a new code review tool

Just curious. I see that RB does syntax highlighting, while Rietveld does not. Also JSON API. Something else? "Flashier" is good if you want to catch attention, but not so great for real work, but missing functionality is important...

As for "why to reinvent the wheel"... Mondrian (Rietveld is open-source fork of Mondrian) and Review Board were developed more-or-less in parallel... Just look at Review Board announce here and note this line: "We started development on this shortly before Mondrian was announced, and thought “Maybe we can just use Mondrian!” Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be open source, and wouldn’t integrate well into our setup anyway. So development of Review Board was still justified".

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