Feature Request: Summary comments when submitting reviews
Problem to solve
As an engineer who uses code review as a teaching tool across many teams, I often need to leave a lot of comments on a given review, especially if engineers are new to a given language or tool. I want to be able to leave a "summary" comment when submitting a code review, so that I can highlight things that went well, comments on the overall design, and to generally leave a friendlier message to folks.
This can lead help to frame feedback and also to establish better dialogue between reviewers and PR authors. It's a feature I miss a lot from other code review tools when using GitLab.
Intended users
I think the following roles are likely to benefit from this (but it's my first GL feature request so I am unsure):
- Delaney (Development Team Lead)
- Sasha (Software Developer)
- Devon (DevOps Engineer)
- Simone (Software Engineer in Test)
- Allison (Application Ops)
- Priyanka (Platform Engineer)
User experience goal
Providing a place to ask broader questions, frame review comments, and provide a positive experience when receiving feedback.
Proposal
An initial implementation of this could be: When submitting reviews, the submission box could include a text field that if populated would become a free-standing comment on the review, submitted at the same time as the other feedback.