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[http://www.reviewboard.org/ Review Board] is an open-source review tool which supports just about every VCS out there. Unfortunately, it is also fundamentally a patch-based system, although it does know about repositories' canonical location so it can grab context that isn't in the diff itself--at least, if the patch still applies. This makes it still a fancy version of Splinter, fundamentally.

Luckily, we have all kinds of clever people here with intimate knowledge of VCSes, including Mercurial, so in late winter they banged together a prototype showing that it is possible to convert Review Board to a branch-based system after all!

As an aside, we we say "branches", we mean the git concept of them--lightweight. Branches in mercurial are not the same at all; however, there are two alternatives that provide similar functionality: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mercurial_Queues Mercurial Queues], now considered obsolete by many, and [http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2014/06/23/please-stop-using-mq/ hg bookmarks]. Both are supported by our system, though the latter is preferred

Since then, we've settled on a concrete design that makes submitting patches as painless as possible, as well as providing integration to Bugzilla.  The main components are