Feature Request: PR Comment "Severity" Level

[revmischa]

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When I'm leaving comments on PRs for code review, some comments are just suggestions, or "👍🏻" or a suggestion that doesn't need to be followed, and some comments are like "this will end all life on planet Earth" and it'd be nice if there was a way to mark a comment as "informational" or "must be fixed". Like a way to attach a "severity" to a comment.

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[jverce]

A few labels that I usually use in my comments (by just typing the intent at the top):

1. Question - when you want to just clarify something
2. Nitpick - not a blocker for the PR but a suggestion that should make the code more readable, compliant, etc.
3. Severe - something that introduces a bug or breaks existing functionality

I type these in my comments, but it'd be nice if:

1. Everyone used the same methodology (which would be much easier if the functionality were native to Github)
2. Filter comments based on these labels/tags
3. Prevent PRs from being merged unless the certain types of comments are addressed

[hermanbanken]

FYI, while humans can not do this, Copilot reviews now include a Severity level. This might be added to mess with Cursor, which PR reviews included a very nice severity label text.

And apparently this was already something possible for CodeQL:
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/tutorials/improve-code-quality/fix-findings-in-prs#1-understand-how-github-code-quality-works-on-pull-requests