[SciPy-Dev] issues trac migration review

[Skipper Seabold]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:22 PM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:49 PM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> incorrect crosslinks again
>>>
>>> comments like this are pretty annoying since the create backlinks
>>>  https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/870#issuecomment-17029861
>>> a collection of backlinks
>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/3
>>>
>>> trac didn't have the backlinks, so incorrect links were less of a distraction.
>>>
>>> Is there anything we can do? or maybe it's not worth it with old tickets.
>>>
>>
>> Ugh, I spent an hour fixing the regex for this last night and it
>> happens automatically on github anyway.
>>
>> I just put that in a code block and it goes away, but no there's no
>> way to really do that programmatically.
>
> Yes, I realized that before, there is no way to recognize this with a regex.

Well it doesn't convert it to gh-. That's the regex I control.

>
> I was thinking more about whether we should manually edit the
> offending comments.

Sounds fine to me.

>
> At least I would prefer, when I see a wrong backlink in one of the
> issues that I look at, to just go and edit the linking comment.
> It would trigger a notification, I assume.

I don't think a manual edit would. Doing it with the code deletes the
old comments and pushes new ones, so that would.

I think we're out of the notification doghouse now though (at least
with github...).

https://status.github.com/

Skipper