GitHub’s PR line comments are effective for talking about specific pieces of code in a review. But it’s daunting to get email notifications for each line comment, especially if the reply is only to say that the issue was addressed.
Last month in Slack we talked about how GitHub’s emoji reactions are a great way to check-off review items without sending notification emails. Now the DM Workflow has been updated with this guidance. Read it here, and enjoy and animated gif while you’re at it:
https://developer.lsst.io/processes/workflow.html#using-github-pull-requests
