The review comments still live outside of the repo, in an unformatted ad-hoc format that's not easy to write a nice UI for. Ideally, I should be able to add rev

The review comments still live outside of the repo, in an unformatted ad-hoc format that's not easy to write a nice UI for. Ideally, I should be able to add review comments in a graphical diff viewer or web front-end and every dev should be able to choose the tools they prefer. Email workflow would solve the connectivity issues, but the reviews, issues etc are not stored for posterity along with the code. Reviews don't need to be much more than text, but they need some metadata to refer to files/revisions/lines. Basically this could be solved with some conventions on top of text files that machines could understand. What I'm after is something like Fossil, where all the project management can be done offline and in a structured way.