We've been fortunate enough to participate once again in the Google Summer of Code. This is an opportunity for students from around the world to work on interesting open source projects. This is our second year participating. Last year's efforts resulted in the upcoming Move Detection in the Diff Viewer, whitespace display toggling, Policy rule support (coming in probably 1.7), WebHooks (coming in 1.6), and Eclipse IDE integration.
This year we've selected three students with very exciting proposals:
- Distributed Version Control System support to allow for reviewing patch sets and checking remote branch status.
- Identifying repeated changes in a diff and summarizing or collapsing them, making it easier to review code where a function or variable has been renamed or changed in a consistent way throughout several files.
- Work on the Extensions branch to help get our in-development Extensions support into better shape for a release.
- A Linux installer making it easier to install Review Board on a variety of Linux distributions and keep it up-to-date.
We'd like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal this year, and we'd especially like to thank Google for once again accepting us into Summer of Code! Finally, we'd like to welcome our students into the project this year. It should be a great Summer.