Hello Github,
Pull requests are not serving me well on large reviews. Here are some problems and suggested enhancements that would make me happy.
- Mark comment as "resolved" (see google docs for an example). As code changes, comments get lost or made redundant, and it is not clear (to either the author or reviewers) which are still relevant and which have been addressed. Resolving a comment doesn't need to make it dissappear, but I need to be able to see "which comments have not been addressed" somehow. This feature would be the most useful to me.
- Reply to a comment. This can be done in effect on line comments (assuming there is only one), but cannot on PR comments. Particularly with many threads, the lack of this makes a review hard to follow.
- Explicit "approve/block" life cycle. The block is actually more important to me ... often on a PR that has been incrementally improved I want to "block" final merge of it until I get a chance to rebase/squash and generally pretty it up. The block can be over