What happens with the review comments?

[Volker Simonis]

Hi,

I noticed that the "request for review" mails often contain a small
description and/or justification of a change potentially followed by a
discussion of the change. Unfortunately, these comments are not part
of the hg changeset which only contains the summary of the change and
often they are also not part of the bug report.

I remember that some time ago there was a discussion on the OpenJDK
lists about which fields to use in a hg changeset comments and it has
been argued, that "a more complete description of the change belongs
in the bug report" (see
http://openjdk.java.net/guide/producingChangeset.html) but
unfortunately this doesn't seems to happen regularly.

As far as I can see, the bug report now usually links back to the
change set and finding the bug report from a change set is trivial as
well. However the review comments are hard to find, once a change set
is submitted. I'm really happy to see the review process for changes
happening in the open on the OpenJDK mailing lists but I think it's a
pity if this information doesn't go into a kind of "database" for
future use.

Are there any ideas how this valuable information could be preserved
in the future (changing the policy of what goes into the change sets
comments, somehow enforce that review comments go into the bug
report)?

Regards,
Volker