Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd like the ability to add a comment which does not get turned into an >> email.
> I really don't ;)
> The reason I really don't like that is that this now makes it impossible to > track the review status by just reading throught he mail thread. You have > to context-switch back and forth between the app and the archives. We had > this problem in the old system every now and then where reviews were > posted entirely in the old system...
Yeah, people did that sometimes and it sucked. At the same time I see Jeff's point: 300-email threads tend to contain a lot of dross. Could we address it by allowing only *very short* annotations? The limiting case would be 1-bit annotations, ie you could star the important messages in a thread; but that might be too restrictive.
Right - to me that's the difference between annotation (per Roberts email earlier, just "tagging" won't be enough, and I think I agree with that - but a limited length ones) and a "comment".
It could be that I'm reading too much into Jeff's suggestion though - maybe that's actually what he is suggesting.
The annotation would then "highlight" the email in the archives with a direct link (haven't figured out exactly how to implement that part yet but I have some ideas and I think it's going to work out well).
