Review Board

Review Board can integrate with Jenkins to do test builds of code changes and report the results back on a review request. This plugin provides the necessary APIs to facilitate this integration.

Once this plugin is installed, you'll need to configure your Review Board server inside Jenkins:

1. On your Jenkins server, navigate to Manage Jenkins, then select Configure System.

2. Scroll down until you reach the Review Board configuration section.

3. Click Add Review Board Server to create a new Review Board server configuration.

4. Enter your Review Board server URL into the Review Board URL field. This must match the server URL set in the Review Board General Settings page.

5. If you have previously created a credential for your Review Board API token, select it here and skip to the job configuration.

6. If you have not yet created a credential for the Review Board API token, click Add and select Jenkins.

7. In the prompt, set Kind to Secret text.

8. Set Scope to Global.

9. Fill in Secret with the Review Board API Token found in the Jenkins CI integration configuration page in the Review Board administration UI.

10. Give your secret a unique identifier in the ID field and click Add.

11. Click Save to save your server configuration.

For each job you wish to use on Jenkins, you must add four new build parameters that will be used to give Jenkins information on the incoming review request. To add these, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to your job's page and click Configure.

2. Ensure the This project is parameterized checkbox is checked.

3. For each of the following parameter names, repeat these two steps:

   • REVIEWBOARD_REVIEW_ID
   • REVIEWBOARD_DIFF_REVISION
   • REVIEWBOARD_STATUS_UPDATE_ID
   • REVIEWBOARD_SERVER
   1. Click Add parameter and select String parameter
   2. Input the parameter name into the Name field and leave all other fields blank.

4. Scroll down to the Build section. Here we can add the Apply patch from Review Board step by clicking Add build step and choosing it from the dropdown menu.

   Note: This step uses RBTools to apply the patch from Review Board. It will attempt to install the package using pip, but if it lacks permission you will need to manually install it. Additionally, the order of your build steps matter, so this step should likely be the first build step so all later build steps see the correct source code.

5. Scroll down to the Post-build actions section. Here we can add the Publish build status to Review Board step by clicking Add post-build action and choosing it from the dropdown menu.

6. Click Save to save these changes.