alt Hacker NewsIt's an interesting idea, but I feel like it's missing almost the most important thing; the context of the change itself. When I review a change, it's almost never just about the actual code changes, but reviewing it in the context of what was initially asked, and how it relates to that.
Your solution here seems to exclusively surface "what" changes, but it's impossible for me to know if it's right or not, unless I also see the "how" first and/or together with the change itself. So the same problem remains, except instead of reviewing in git/GitHub/gerrit + figure out the documents/resources that lays out the task itself, I still have to switch and confirm things between the two.
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I assume this problem could be solved if we write up what we actually want (like a GH issue) and maybe in the future the guys at Stage could use github issues as part of their PR review?
I agree, that's also really important and something we're brainstorming
Currently on Stage we also generate a PR summary next to the chapters and that's where we want to do more "why" that pulls in context from Linear, etc.
And I know there's a lot of cool teams like Mesa and Entire working on embedding agent context into git history itself so that could an interesting area to explore as well