Comment by strongpigeon 10 months ago
Only somewhat related, but I'd pay decent money to have access to the whole Piper/CitC/Critique/Code Search stack. As much as I've tried to like it, I just don't really like Github's code review tool.
Requiring every comment to be resolved is not a standard part of GitHub’s code review system. That is something which your organization has gone out of its way to require.
Former Googler. I also miss Critique/Gerrit. I've tried a bunch of alternatives, and I like CodeApprove:
It's great if you have a team that does code reviews. It works less well for reviewing contributions from external contributors on an open-source project,a as the contributor likely just wants to get their PR merged and doesn't want to learn a special reviewing tool.
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Shameless plug but since you asked ... CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) is probably the closest thing you can get to Critique on GitHub. It doesn't help with the Piper/CitC/Code Search parts though, and I agree those were excellent.
Shameless plug, but we built http://CodePeer.com - to bring Critique like features to everyone else. Take it for a spin if you like!
Github's code review tool is uniquely bad. Notably it presents every comment as blocking and requiring sign off - even a "Glad someone cleaned this up! <thumbs up emoji>" needs clearing before merge.
It also has some UX snafus that cause reviewers to write a number of comments and then forget to publish any of them, leading to a lot of interactions along the lines of "I thought you were going to review my PR?" "I already did?"