Is Rietveld inextricably tied to App Engine?

Question

I've been looking at Rietveld as a solution for the lack of code reviews at my company. Can it be set up on a server in-house without using App Engine? It seems to have a bit of App Engine specific code, and I'm not sure it could be set up on a plain old Django/Apache install. I've looked around, but haven't found any information about this.

Answer 1

Check out http://django-gae2django.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/rietveld/README

The gae2django project lets GAE apps run against django instead of the GAE development environment.

That means you can run rietveld under django directly, using (by default) an SQLite backend. You can also use mysql or any other DB backend django supports.

That, plus a web server (e.g. Apache) with WSGI integration, makes a local rietveld install run nicely.

Answer 2

What about using one of these projects that provide the same backend services as GAE?

• Typhoon AE
• Appscale

There may be more, these are just the ones I know about off the top of my head.