Consider adding support for block comments

Problem to solve

When reviewing a merge request, the reviewer is able to place comments on individual lines. However, commenting a block of text is not possible so far.

Intended users

  • Delaney (Development Team Lead)
  • Sasha (Software Developer)
  • Devon (DevOps Engineer)

Further details

Sometimes, it is not clear that the one-line comment refers to the whole block. Therefore, the reviewer always has to mention the relevant line numbers manually in the comment message. It would be nice if this would be supported out-of-the box without manual and error-prone interaction.

Proposal

A solution which has a similar usage as in https://www.reviewboard.org/ would be nice

Permissions and Security

Normal reviewer permissions.

Documentation

needs to be updated

Testing

no risks

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Block comments are supported and clearly visible in the UI.

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