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A lightweight code review tool that works with GitHub

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One of the creators here. Just to make this clear, this tool has not yet been released, however, we are getting close. Before you criticize the UI/UX, please try it yourself. We will be offering a public hosted instance and enterprises can host it themselves for their own GitHub enterprise. Our page http://review.ninja/ is outdated right now and only used for mailing list purposes, please refer to http://review-ninja-staging.cfapps.io/ for our staging environment. Please be aware that staging might not be stable.

Looks like something's wrong with the routing:

> 404 Not Found: Requested route ('review-ninja-staging.cfapps.io') does not exist.

And as an ex-SAP employee, scrolling to the bottom and seeing the SAP logo came as quite the surprise (in a nice way). Excited for the direction SAP seems to be heading.

We're fixing errors right now and the app might be down from time to time during deployment.

Thanks :) Will track this tool! The UI already looks awesome though ;)

This is totally unrelated to their code review software (I still have no idea what it does from the repository by the way) but I can't help to think from their domain (http://review.ninja/) that somehow we crossed a line in the TLD business, this does not even looks like a legitimate url.

Following the links in their Github repos I found their docs, http://docs.review.ninja/#quickstart which links to their Github auth page (http://review.ninja/auth/github). So far I've enabled it for a throwaway repo and haven't seen what it does yet. I'll keep exploring though.

The http://review.ninja/auth/github is a very old version of the tool (1 month old). The team will cut over to master next Tuesday

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. The UI on the staging server is much nicer ;)

I'm surprised there is no demo, or even screenshots. It says it's in the "early stages", but presumably it's functional.

Sorry about that, our demo/screenshot page is in the pipeline. Official release is planned for next Tuesday.

Lightweight code review from SAP? I'm intrigued.

Hey everyone, if you want to check out the tool please take a look at our staging server

http://review-ninja-staging.cfapps.io/

Our production server is incredibly out of date and mainly there for the purpose of our mailing list :)

I've met the team working on this and got to see a demo of it recently. It's pretty cool gear -- hopefully someone from that team can hop in here and answer questions. They're working on some interesting things over there.

When I worked at SAP it was Perforce and nothing else, wonder if they use git now.

We're using mostly git now, in fact we have GitHub enterprise too.

Sadly no demo.

The tool is still in development. Marketing page and demo will be available next week... hint: not your typical SAP tool

I'm still not entirely sure what it does…

To summarize its current stage, it adds issue tracking on a pull-request scope, as well as stars for pull-requests. We will be adding automated voting in form of what we call bots. We try to save most of the data inside of GitHub to limit what is saved in our persistence.

So, how does it work?

Not the same, but I'm building tool for using editor (vim, ...) as backend for reviewing pull requests for Stash (git hosting product from Atlassian): https://github.com/seletskiy/ash

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