A bunch of us were in Toronto last week hacking on MozReview.

One of the cool things we did was deploy a bot for performing Python static analysis. If you submit some .py files to MozReview, the bot should leave a review. If it finds violations (it uses flake8 internally), it will open an issue for each violation. It also leaves a comment that should hopefully give enough detail on how to fix the problem.

While we haven't done much in the way of performance optimizations, the bot typically submits results less than 10 seconds after the review is posted! So, a human should never be reviewing Python that the bot hasn't seen. This means you can stop thinking about style nits and start thinking about what the code does.

This bot should be considered an alpha feature. The code for the bot isn't even checked in yet. We're running the bot against production to get a feel for how it behaves. If things don't go well, we'll turn it off until the problems are fixed.

We'd like to eventually deploy C++, JavaScript, etc bots. Python won out because it was the easiest to integrate (it has sane and efficient tooling that is compatible with Mozilla's code bases - most existing JavaScript tools won't work with Gecko-flavored JavaScript, sadly).

I'd also like to eventually make it easier to locally run the same static analysis we run in MozReview. Addressing problems locally before pushing is a no-brainer since it avoids needless context switching from other people and is thus better for productivity. This will come in time.

Report issues in #mozreview or in the Developer Services :: MozReview Bugzilla component.