What is the relationship between GvR's Rietveld and Android's Gerrit?

Question

What is the relationship between Rietveld and Gerrit (Android's code review application)?

Answer 1

Gerrit is the first name of the Dutch architect, and Rietveld is his last name.

Looking at the source code, it seems that Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld (e.g. Gerrit's models.py is nearly identical to Rietveld's, with the docstring changed from Rietveld to Gerrit).

Answer 2

Gerrit is definitely a fork from Rietveld. To quote from the google opensource blog:

The gerrit code review tool is based off of rietveld. Gerrit is itself split into two components: Half that runs on Google App Engine to provide front-end web service, and half that runs on a machine to handle attempted merges into the "upstream" branch, and the various code review branches. When we integrate the auto-builders into the system, that will also be handled by Gerrit.

Answer 3

That answer was true then. These days, however, Gerrit2 is a rewrite in Java of the original Rietveld clone.