[llvm-dev] Comments on GitHub commits?

[Finkel, Hal J. via llvm-dev]

On 11/4/19 8:44 AM, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev wrote:
>>>>  From what I’ve seen on other projects, comments on raw git commits are
>> rare and self-limiting. The only reasonable responses are “okay”, “okay,
>> file a bug”, and “okay, please submit a patch”. I also haven’t verified
>> this, but I suspect only the commit author gets notified, which prevents
>> idle people from piling onto to the conversation.
>>> Watchers of the repo get the comments (just like pull-requests).
>>>
>>> I suspect that moving to a system where people are watching the
>> repository instead of subscribing to the mailing-list is likely
>> unavoidable at some point.
>>
>> Then again, watching the repository will ultimately be like
>> subscribing to llvm-commits, won't it? How many people do _that_ and
>> actually track what happens? I personally can't imagine doing that
>> without some serious automatic filtering...
> Not sure what you mean by "actually track what happens."
> I subscribe, and I skim the subject lines nearly every day, to see
> whether anything interesting has happened.  I actually *read* maybe
> 1 or 2 percent of the traffic.  In order for automatic filtering to
> work, I'd need to decide ahead of time what keywords and/or people to
> care about.  I'd rather not look at the project with such blinders in
> place.
> --paulr


+1

There are some of us who do this.

To the subject of this thread: is this comment feature useful for the 
purpose of post-commit code review?

  -Hal


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Hal Finkel
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