> This is planning issue, if you correctly size tickets you aren’t going to end up in messy situations as often.
I think the underlying issue is what is an appropriate “unit of work”. Parent commenter may want to ship a complete/entire feature in one MR. Ticketing obsessed people will have some other metric. Merge process may be broken in this aspect. I would rather explain to reviewer to bring them up to speed on the changes to make their cognitive load easier
This. The solution to long and multiple reviews to MR is single pair review session where most of the big picture aspects can be addressed immediately and verbally discussed and challenged.
IMHO it is the same as chat. If talking about an issue over mail or chat takes more than 3-5 messages, trigger a call to solve it face to face.
I think the underlying issue is what is an appropriate “unit of work”. Parent commenter may want to ship a complete/entire feature in one MR. Ticketing obsessed people will have some other metric. Merge process may be broken in this aspect. I would rather explain to reviewer to bring them up to speed on the changes to make their cognitive load easier