Getting a Grip on Google Code

netbuzz writes "Niall Kennedy reports on his blog that Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, has begun showing off his first project since joining Google last year. 'Mondrian is a Web-based code-review system built on top of a Perforce and BigTable backend with a Python-powered front-end,' Kennedy writes. 'Mondrian is a pretty impressive system and is currently in use across Google.' Kennedy's description of Google's current code-review system sure makes it sound like it was in need of an upgrade. 'The Mondrian tool creates a much better workflow by creating task-specific dashboards, in-line commenting, well-tracked statistics, and more,' he writes. 'The application is built on top of Python open source libraries such as the Django framework, smtpd.py mail service, and the wsgiref Web server software.'"

Re:google knows what it's all about

[El_Muerte_TDS]

And actually good documentation is written in Latin, or Hieroglyphs, or Sanskrit.

Re:Blargh! Mondrian is already an open-source OLAP

[panaceaa]

I nominate Gimp. It's represented a crappy image editor with nonsensical UI for too long. It'd be awesome if it was something cool, like Web 2.0 Pong.

Re:Blargh! Mondrian is already an open-source OLAP

[Anonymous Coward]

Guido's some sort of naming-dick. What'll he call his next python project? Glibc? Mesa? Gimp?

Firebird!

Microsoft uses Perforce?!

[mkcmkc]

Microsoft is using Perforce for source code control? Why aren't they using their own product--Visual Source Safe? Does it suck or something?

Re:Joel Spolsky mentions Perforce

[mr_mophead]

It took you until now to see an early warning sign?