We believe that "it takes a village," and so, you won't have one assigned mentor on your project. You'll have all of us, ready to help and answer any questions you may have.
Introducing the mentors:
Hi! I'm one of Review Board's founders, along with David Trowbridge. We built this to "scratch an itch," as they say, after years of having to look at raw patch files and very poor side-by-side diffs from teammates or contributors to our projects.
I began brainstorming the ideas behind Review Board with David back in 2006. It was an experimental project that, I thought, would hardly be used outside of our immediate circle. Over time, that became a very large hobby project. As of August 2013, David and I took the leap to work on this full-time.
Before this, I worked at VMware on a few projects. Namely, Workstation, Player, Server, WSX, and bits of View. Mostly on the Linux side, though these days, you'll find me coding on a Mac. Before I turned to the dark side, I was also actively developing other bits of open source software (Pidgin, parts of the GNOME desktop, and other things here and there).
I also like faking competence at photography, toying with making games (on occasion), and long walks on the beach.
I had always been interested in computers, but I first got involved with open-source software in high school, when a friend installed Red Hat Linux on a spare machine in one of the computer labs. I continued tinkering with various different open-source projects during school, eventually getting involved with the GNOME project, where I first met Christian (online—it was another few years before we met in person). After graduating from college, I moved out to Silicon Valley to join the Workstation team at VMware, where Christian and I worked together for many years. At some point, during one of many sessions complaining about how crappy it was to e-mail a patch file to a mailing list, Review Board was born.
At the time, I don't think either one of us had any idea that Review Board would be more than an experimental prototype, but it turned out that a lot of other people had the same problems that we did. It's been a humbling experience to watch as something we built has become one of the de facto tools in the industry. In August 2013, we decided to take the plunge and make Review Board our full-time job. We split our time between pushing the product forward and keeping the business around it sustainable, so that it will always have the support and attention that it deserves.