MR comments: too many mentioned-in-comments generated
Created by: fcelda
Mentioning a commit in a merge request comment creates a useless mentioned comment in the merge request.
For example:
- Darth Vader writes a MR comment saying: I feel a great disturbance in the commit abcd123.
- A new automatic comment appears in the same MR: Darth Vader started a discussion on commit abcd123.
- Under the automatic comment, a new comment appears saying: mentioned in merge request !42
We find the comment useless because:
- There is no direct reference to the source of the mention. You have to open the link and search the whole page to find it.
- If there are multiple mentions of the same commit in the MR, multiple comments saying mentioned in merge request appear.
- It creates mess on the MR page, especially for large merge requests.
- It spams involved people's mailboxes.
- With each new comment, the web interface is getting more unresponsive. And the load on our server increases.
It would be great if something can be improved in this area.