[Tracker-discuss] [issue624] bpo emails contain useless non-github pull_request number - users want a link to actual github PR

[Gregory P Smith]

New submission from Gregory P Smith:

bugs.python.org emails contain misleading text such as

"""
Changes by so and so

----------
pull_requests: +1081
"""

When a Github Pull Request is associated with an issue.

Which is *entirely useless* as 1081 is NOT a github PR number.

It appears to be an internal bpo database key.  Please never expose that!

This makes an email based workflow impossible as I cannot go from the email to the Github PR in question.  What this needs to be is text containing the actual Github PR number hyperlinked directly to the Github PR itself.

In this example, the above was trigged by the "2017-03-31 09:36:35	dstufft	set	pull_requests: + pull_request1081" action on https://bugs.python.org/issue20572 which should really link to https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/552 if I understand https://bugs.python.org/pull_request1081 properly.

Please consider email based workflows.

I do not want to open bpo to hunt through the UI for one of two places that may contain the link that eventually gets me to the right page.

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messages: 3327
nosy: gregory.p.smith
priority: bug
status: unread
title: bpo emails contain useless non-github pull_request number - users want a link to actual github PR

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