There is an idea at Google to have open source developers that Google has hired talk about their jobs at Google. Guido van Rossum, inventor of Python, gave the first talk in the OSS Developers @ Google Speaker Series on “Mondrian: Code Review over the Web.”
I watched it today and it seems that this web tool might be very useful not only for Google, but for open source projects or even commercial ones. The code reviewing process has a lot of advantages (they are mentioned in video) . Mondrian actually works only with BigTable (google internal distributed database) and Perforce (commercial revision control software) and it’s not public, it’s just for Google internal use. What I’ve heard it will be publicly available when they gonna port it to use SubVersion and MySQL insteed of Perforce and BigTable. I wonder how many software engineers at Google actually use Mondrian insteed of g4 (shell-based code review tool for Google old code review process). As all Google services Mondrian has a nice, simple and intuitive interface. It just does the job. Can’t wait to see it going public one day :-)
You can check out the video (it’s 55 minutes long but it’s worth it):
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