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

[Berker Peksağ]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2017, at 16:35, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 12:23 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:
>>> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Are we planning to alter existing commit messages as part of the hg to fit transition?
>> No, we are not mucking with the history as part of the transition.
>
> Sorry, I don't mean to resurrect any old discussions that I've forgotten about here but, just to be clear, that means that we will no longer be able to click through from the web pages of the tens of thousands of old commits back to their corresponding bug web pages as we can do today?
>
> For example, https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/aa7ac93d23b2 (eventually) links back to https://bugs.python.org/issue20185 (at least it should if the SSL certificate weren't expired today), whereas the corresponding git commit (https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f889393ab0362229c42bc31056f3ef9735a1d27) does not and will not provide a link back?  That's ... unfortunate.

Correct, but that can be solved by using a small browser extension. I
once wrote an extension that automatically generates
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=NNNN links for "Bug NNNN" markers
on GitHub.

--Berker