Dev Discussions

Dev Discussions presents comments on work items and pull requests the way a team chat does: a workspace and project tree on the left, a thread in the middle, a composer at the bottom.

The first run seeds the cache with sample data (an “Acme Enterprise SDLC” workspace with a petshop project, and a “RobOS Core Platform” workspace). Comments you write are attributed to a fixed “Lead System Architect” user. The “Latency 0.4ms” and “GitHub Budget: 4,892 / 5,000” labels come from that seed data, not from measurements.

What you do in it

Pick a workspace, then a project, feature and work item. Filter the list with All, Tasks or Pull Requests.
Write a message in the composer. The toolbar inserts bold, italic, inline code, a code block, a diff snippet and a quote, and has an Attach control. Enter sends. Choose where it goes with the radio buttons:
- Local & KGraph Cache saves the comment to the local cache only.
- Sync Upstream to GitHub also runs gh pr comment or gh issue comment on the project’s repository (the slug in the cache, for example acme/petshop-api).
On pull-request threads, review comments carry a file path, line number and diff hunk, and can be marked resolved. Comments can get emoji reactions.
The sync action runs gh pr view or gh issue view for the open thread and updates the “last synced” time. It returns the remote data but does not merge it into the cache.
The export buttons (one for the open thread, one for everything) write the threads, comments and attachments as robos:DiscussionThread, comment and attachment nodes into .robos/kgraphs/organization/package.jsonld, relative to the directory the app was started from. If that file does not exist the nodes are counted but not saved.

Data and requirements

Cache: ~/.config/robos/dev-discussions-cache.json. Delete it to reseed the sample data.
The gh CLI, signed in, for upstream posting and sync. Local use needs nothing else.
Only http and https links open in the browser.

electron packages/dev-discussions

Source: packages/dev-discussions.

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