[Python-Dev] Appending a link back to bugs.python.org in GitHub PRs

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 at 07:30 Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

> With the linking back and forth, I'm curious why there wasn't a switch to
> use GitHub's issue tracker when we switched to GitHub. I'm sure there was
> previous discussion about this and good reasons not to, but couldn't find
> those quickly (PEP 512, Google search, etc) -- can someone point me in the
> right direction? -Ben
>

Basically there was push-back on the idea and I only had enough time and
patience for one major infrastructure change that was somewhat
controversial and not for two.

-Brett


>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Kushal Das we now have one of the most requested features since
>> the transition: a link in PRs back to bugs.python.org (in a more
>> discoverable way since we have had them since Bedevere launched :) . When a
>> pull request comes in with an issue number in the title (or one gets
>> added), a link to bugs.python.org will be appended to the PR's body (the
>> message you fill out when creating a PR). There's no logic to remove the
>> link if the issue number is removed from the title, changed, or for
>> multiple issue numbers since basically those cases are all rare and it was
>> easier to launch without that kind of support.
>>
>> P.S.: Berker Peksag is working on providing commit emails with diffs in
>> them which is the other most requested feature since the transition.
>>
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