Mondrian's integrated with e-mail, so I don't really see what the problem is.
All I'm saying is that it seemed to make a difference how I initiated things.
Another nice feature of that is that if parts of the design discussion pertain to particular features in the code, you can attach them as such, so that the code is automatically quoted in the e-mail thread.
That sounds like either a new feature of Mondrian (it's been 2 years since I was at Google) or one that I simply hadn't discovered (I never completely mastered Mondrian or the code review process when I was there.)
Anyway, my larger point is that at Google there seemed to be a tendency to always default into a low-level line-by-line code review unless I took explicit steps to point the code review into a different direction. I saw a similar tendency at Mozilla. YMMV, of course.
All I'm saying is that it seemed to make a difference how I initiated things.
Another nice feature of that is that if parts of the design discussion pertain to particular features in the code, you can attach them as such, so that the code is automatically quoted in the e-mail thread.
That sounds like either a new feature of Mondrian (it's been 2 years since I was at Google) or one that I simply hadn't discovered (I never completely mastered Mondrian or the code review process when I was there.)
Anyway, my larger point is that at Google there seemed to be a tendency to always default into a low-level line-by-line code review unless I took explicit steps to point the code review into a different direction. I saw a similar tendency at Mozilla. YMMV, of course.