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

[Brett Cannon]

I just did a quick test and the "#NNNN" linking in commit messages only
seems to occur if the issue exists at the time of pushing a commit. See
https://github.com/brettcannon/gidgethub/commit/31fd4df5e3ade210fbfa39e557095c1516c02c27
for
an instance where "#2" didn't link since I didn't have an issue #2 yet,
https://github.com/brettcannon/gidgethub/commit/92434150efb27c75a738c3ba37311ea2590952e7
which
did link because #2 existed, and
https://github.com/brettcannon/gidgethub/commit/d2640d7fa7671049361d24a2c85203c50ce98882
which
didn't link in the title even though I created an issue after I pushed that
commit.

And since we will be creating a new project there will be no pre-existing
issues to accidentally link to when we push the converted repo.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 16:35 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:

> 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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