Following review comments is hard
Hi,
I am not sure if I should have written this as a feature proposal or something else, as it is more of a generic question. I come from a background of having used gerrit/jenkins and have for the past year also used gitlab.
Gitlab is far superior in all ways, except for code review. I've found other issues detailing this with possible future feature additions, but I am more so curious how people currently work in GitLab to tackle these issues.
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This is the main problem. In Gerrit I can go into an MR and easily see all new updates since a certain date. I can see on what patch set, which user etc. made the comments. So if someone made a comment on an old patch set, I can easily see that. But in GitLab, if someone makes a comment on a discussion started some time ago (let's say a week) that comment will end up far up on the comment page and I will have no idea it even exists. How do you people work with this? How do you know if you have had a reply made to an older comment on a MR on a piece of line of code? This is a major problem I have to easily find new comments made by users on a MR. Look at this here: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/images/user-review-ui-change-screen-history.png
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Gerrit has a main page where you can see all the MR's that you either created yourself or is assigned as a reviewer. If any updates has happened to a MR the title/headling is bolded. This means its easy to just click into the MRs where something happened. How do people work with this in Gitlab? (I do not use slack or anyt notification service such as email, just the internal Todo. But that is only updated if someone mentions me in the MR so that is not valid. I am a strong believer I should not need other tools (email/slack) to see if an updated has happened in an MR where I am involved).