[core-workflow] Final chance to express opinion on history rewrite for issue #s

[Brett Cannon]

In the end I decided *NOT* to do the history mutation/rewrite basically
because I didn't discuss this with python-committers ahead of time (so it's
entirely my fault this didn't go forward). The history of this repo --
along with the code -- is collectively owned by all of the people who have
contributed to it. The idea of mutating the history like this was not
discussed with the stakeholders/contributors of that history ahead of
time and thus I don't feel it is my place to unilaterally muck with it
without having a proper discussion ahead of time (I unfortunately didn't
have this thought until this morning). While I realize I have been given
the rights to change our workflow, none of these changes are permanent (as
our regular changes to it show :) . But changing the history is permanent
and thus a much heftier thing to do with the dictatorial powers I have for
this migration.

Had I thought to reach out ahead of time then it's possible I could have
gotten the permission necessary. But since leaving this as-is doesn't hurt
anything (thanks to GH doing the linking eagerly and thus not picking up
any of the issue numbers that pre-exist), I felt it was better to err on
the side of caution and not upset people by springing this on them.

Obviously a huge thanks to Senthil and Ezio for giving this a go. The regex
will be useful for anyone who wants to write a browser plug-in to add the
automatic linking so I don't view the work as wasted.

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 08:06 Maciej Szulik <soltysh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
> (Maciej was positive but didn't say +1 or +0; Martin said -0.5 which isn't
> a valid vote, so I rounded up for him; I'm personally on the fence so
> voting conservatively now but can switch that view)
>
>
> Count me as +1 on this one, I'll be more explicit next time :)
>
>
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