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

[Ned Deily]

On Feb 3, 2017, at 19:02, Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> That's a question for Senthil, but I would be a little worried about editing
>> the history as the match should be probably s/issue #(\d+)/bpo-\1/ and it
>> shows how easy it is to miss edge cases.
> It's easy to make the changes in the commit messages. It could be done
> at the conversion level by patching hg-git[1] that we plan to use.
> We will have to come a decision on if it is desirable to do it and the
> format that is preferable.

It seems to be that this is a pretty big usability issue and that this is the one chance we might have to "painlessly" deal with it if we can, assuming github.com doesn't provide some configuration options for this in the future.  So my vote would be to at least try to do a test of this and see what results pop up.  OTOH, I don't want the migration to bog down for weeks in seeking a perfect solution.

It would be great if you could try something, Senthil.  Other opinions?

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