[python-committers] A status check for issue number is coming soon

[Brett Cannon]

I've activated Bedevere, so there will now be a status check for issue
numbers in the title of a PR. If a PR doesn't call for an issue number then
it can be labeled "trivial".

And the code for the bot lives at https://github.com/python/bedevere if
some messaging needs to be tweaked, etc.

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 at 11:39 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> I have created a new GitHub bot called Bedevere (
> https://github.com/python/bedevere; see the README if you don't know the
> Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference). Once activated on the cpython
> repo it will add a status check -- just like Travis and AppVeyor -- based
> on whether an issue number is found in a pull request's title. If it's
> there then the Details link will point to that issue on bugs.python.org
> (i.e. no more copying and pasting the number to get back to the issue). If
> it's missing then the status will be marking failing. For those PRs where
> an issue number is not necessary, you can add the "trivial" label and that
> will make the status be passing.
>
> Long-term. Bedevere will probably gain other checks like whether there is
> a news entry (that solution is being actively worked on and I'm still
> hopeful will be in place this month). My hope is by having a single bot for
> these kinds of checks we can make it easier to automate what we can that
> doesn't make sense to do in the CI test builds (i.e. everything related to
> the PR itself, but not the code in the PR).
>
> Now Bedevere has not been turned on yet because I'm sick and I don't want
> to try and diagnose issues the way I'm feeling, but I just wanted to let
> people know that the problem of people forgetting issue numbers is getting
> a fix (hopefully) shortly.
>
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