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

[Ned Deily]

On Feb 3, 2017, at 19:16, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 16:06 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:
>> 2. What about Misc/NEWS entries?  Are we going to continue to ask committers to use the old format (Issue #nnnnn) there?  Note these are currently auto-linked in the docs builds, e.g. https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html.
> Don't know. My expectation is that long term we won't even specify them in the entry itself and it will be part of the filename when we move to a file-per-entry solution. 

That would be nice long-term.  I guess we just need to be clear during the immediate transition what the expectation for committers are about what forms they need to use in the commit messages and in Misc/NEWS.  That needs to be spelled out in transition announcements and in the devguide to minimize confusion, especially if they will no longer be the same, e.g "bpo-NNNNN" in the commit message but "Issue #NNNNN" in Misc/NEWS.

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