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

Ned Deily nad at python.org
Wed Feb 1 14:02:37 EST 2017


On Feb 1, 2017, at 12:43, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Historically commit messages for CPython have had the form of "Issue #NNNN: did something". The problem is that Github automatically links "#NNNN" to GitHub issues (which includes pull requests). To prevent incorrect linking we need to change how we reference issue numbers.
> 
> The current candidates are:
> 
>    issue NNNN (notice the lack of #)

+1 

That form, as well as issueNNNN (no space), is already recognized in comments on bugs.python.org and autogenerates a link to the bug.

https://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html#generating-special-links-in-a-comment

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