We do have some plans to add an "initial user tour" that would guide new users through the basics of using Review Board. This is the first I've heard of someone with your particular confusion, so I'm not sure what else we could do to communicate how comments work.
We redirect back to the reviews page after submitting a review because we want to show continuity between the act of creating the new review (the publish) and seeing the result. It's possible that it's not the best choice, but it's been that way for a long time, so changing it now has the potential to anger just as many (or more) people as it pleases. -David On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Andy Matthews <amatth...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > > why are you publishing them ad-hoc. > > When I type a comment and click "Save", the "Publish" bar shows up at the > top containing the text "You have a pending review.". There's nothing to > indicate that the Publish action applies to a single comment, or multiple > comments. As a first time user I equate comment with one review. If that's > an incorrect assumption then there's another issue I could file, still > related to UI and user experience. > > Regardless, I've been using Reviewboard for 4 months now and it's never > been indicated that I could submit multiple comments and Publish all of > them with a single action. My point is still valid though. A comment can be > made via AJAX, why not also Publish the review, or brace of reviews, via > AJAX as well and leave me where I'm currently at? > > > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:27:30 AM UTC-8, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> >> On 2014-12-02 13:05, Andy Matthews wrote: >> > When responding to a coworkers review request, it's fairly common to >> add >> > multiple comments across a range of files in the diff. >> > >> > After adding a comment, then clicking publish [...] >> >> Okay, stop there. If you are adding comments to multiple files, why are >> you publishing them ad-hoc? >> >> The usual workflow is to add a comment, save it, add another, etc. and >> then publish all of your comments as a single review. >> >> -- >> Matthew >> > -- > Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ > --- > Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ > --- > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "reviewboard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.