<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 11:02 Ned Deily <<a href="mailto:nad@python.org">nad@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Feb 1, 2017, at 12:43, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Historically commit messages for CPython have had the form of "Issue #NNNN: did something". The problem is that Github automatically links "#NNNN" to GitHub issues (which includes pull requests). To prevent incorrect linking we need to change how we reference issue numbers.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> The current candidates are:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> issue NNNN (notice the lack of #)<br class="gmail_msg">
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That form, as well as issueNNNN (no space), is already recognized in comments on <a href="http://bugs.python.org" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">bugs.python.org</a> and autogenerates a link to the bug.<br class="gmail_msg">
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<a href="https://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html#generating-special-links-in-a-comment" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html#generating-special-links-in-a-comment</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We can change it to do whatever we want since we control bpo, so it can be updated to automatically link bpoNNNN or "bpo NNNN" as well.</div></div></div>