Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (68 mails)

[Adam Spiers <aspiers@xxxxxxxx>]

Johannes Weberhofer (jweberhofer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Am 13.06.2013 14:17, schrieb Adam Spiers:
> > Andreas Jaeger (aj@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > On 06/13/2013 12:46 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> > > > Johannes Weberhofer (jweberhofer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > > > Am 13.06.2013 11:33, schrieb Johannes Weberhofer:
> > > > > > At 
> > > > > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines#Current_set_of_abbreviations
> > > > > > there is a quite impressive list of abbreviations to link to tickets of 
> > > > > > different system;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As there is a growing number of tools which come from github, it would 
> > > > > > be great to have the possibility to reference the bugs; unfortunately 
> > > > > > they don't offer system-wide IDs but project specific IDs...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any plan how to handle this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > > Johannes
> > > > >
> > > > > maybe something like gh#fail2ban/fail2ban/pull/249 or 
> > > > > gh#fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/243 ?
> > > >
> > > > It would be better if it was at least partially consistent with
> > > > github's own cross-referencing system, which for the above examples
> > > > would be:
> > > >
> > > >     fail2ban/fail2ban#249
> > > >     fail2ban/fail2ban#243
> > > >
> > > > However we would still need a prefix to identify the github namespace,
> > > > so maybe something like this?
> > > >
> > > >     gh:fail2ban/fail2ban#249
> > > >     gh:fail2ban/fail2ban#243
> > > >
> > > > https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#references
> > >
> > >
> > > Would github recognize these and mark them properly?
> >
> > In what context?  github only hyperlinks them when the text is passed
> > through its markdown parser, and even then, the "gh:" prefix would
> > stop this from working.  But would that even matter?
> >
> > I think we first need to answer the question: what are we trying to
> > achieve here, exactly?
>
> I think it should be documented in the wiki (I can do this) and it would be 
> great when the OBS would offer a link to the ticket/issue when reviewing a 
> request and it's mentioned in the changelog like it is done for bnc# tickets; 
> I've just recognized, that the typical separator is '#' not ':', so the entry 
> should possibly be named
>
> gh#fail2ban/fail2ban#249

Sounds good to me!
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