Manually Installing Review Bot¶

Installing the Review Board Extension¶

To install the Review Bot extension for Review Board, run:

$ sudo pip install reviewbot-extension

(If you’re installing in a virtual environment, don’t use sudo.)

Depending on your configuration, you may need to restart or reload your web server. The specific command depends on your individual setup, but is usually something like the following:

$ sudo service httpd reload

Now open the Review Board administration page, and click Extensions in the top bar. You should see a new extension called “Review Bot”. Click Enable to enable it.

Once installed, the Review Bot extension requires some configuration.

Install a Message Broker¶

Review Bot uses a message broker to distribute worker tasks. It’s how the Review Bot extension on Review Board talks to each worker.

The message broker can be installed on the Review Board server or on another system, depending on your needs. RabbitMQ is the recommended message broker, though any of Celery’s supported brokers should work. Refer the broker’s documentation for installation instructions.

Install Review Bot Workers¶

A Review Bot worker can be installed on the Review Board server or on another system, depending on your needs. You can even install multiple workers on different systems, if you need to scale out further.

To install the main worker package on a server, run:

$ sudo pip install reviewbot-worker

(If you’re installing in a virtual environment, don’t use sudo.)

Depending on the tools you need, you may have to install other system packages or Python packages. Refer to the list of tools for further information on setting these up.

As a shortcut, all built-in Python code/doc checking tools can be installed by running:

$ sudo pip install reviewbot-worker[all]

$ reviewbot -b <broker_url>