Hi,
We'd like to revisit this issue, if possible. Can we have the item's comments in a review merged with the item's comments stream?
It sounds like a permissions issue may be in the way, as the people who have access to view an item may not have access to the review. However, as George points out, this is an artificial obstacle and shouldn't be there in the first place. I think making the item's Review Comments visible in the item's comment stream is a neat(er) way of resolving the issue of making all past reviews public. It actually preserves the permissions better in my opinion.
In theory, if you have permissions to view an item you should have permission to view all of the activity/commentary on that item, wherever it may live (Review Center, Stream or just the item change notifications). This seems acceptable to me, but I'm open to any alternative views on this.
Forcing people to click through a review link to a review that may or may not have a comment on an item seems like a roundabout way of collecting the needed information. I think we'd all prefer to see the information displayed in one place.
Should I file this as a new feature request?
Thanks,
Ed