[core-workflow] Choosing a prefix/label for issue numbers

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 11:02 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2017, at 12:43, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > The current candidates are:
> >
> >    issue NNNN (notice the lack of #)
>
> +1
>
> That form, as well as issueNNNN (no space), is already recognized in
> comments on bugs.python.org and autogenerates a link to the bug.
>
>
> https://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html#generating-special-links-in-a-comment


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.
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