Allow the GitHub app to post PR comments rather than PR reviews

[henworth]

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Issue details

We recently started using the app and one thing that has come up the most so far is how PR comments are implemented. I know there has been a lot of discussion regarding the ability to remove stale comments, but what I’d like to get some insight on is why they are implemented as review comments and not just normal PR comments. I would also welcome a configurable option to control the type of comment (review or regular), as this would at least give the ability to delete comments.

I initially brought this up here in the community slack.

Affected area/feature

GitHub App

[blampe]

This is an extremely reasonable request. I don't think there's a strong reason for these to be review comments.

[blampe]

@henworth this change is now live, thanks for the great suggestion. Keep them coming :)

I know there has been a lot of discussion regarding the ability to remove stale comments

Stay tuned - I'm planning some additional work to hide these automatically. My hope is this ability to manually hide/delete unwanted comments can act as stopgap until that's ready.