Add links back to bugs.python.org

[brettcannon]

When the bpo-\d+ pattern is picked up in a comment we should rewrite it to be linked to bugs.python.org appropriately. And if the link is detected in the title then a link should be added as a comment on the PR.

[soltysh]

Sign me up for this :)

[brettcannon]

And FYI we have a PSF account on Heroku so I would just write any bot to be hosted there to make writing this easier. (I also wonder if there isn't a bot somewhere that does this already? Quite possibly not but a quick Google search wouldn't hurt.)

[soltysh]

Roger that.

[jaraco]

Is there currently any art on which this effort could be based or does it need to be engineered from scratch?

[jaraco]

Until we have a service that can re-write the source, I've developed this greasemonkey script that will inject links:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Link bugs.python.org
// @include https://github.com/python/*
// @require https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

$(".comment-body").html(
    function () {
       return $(this).html().replace(/(bpo-(\d+))/, '<a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue$2">$1</a>');
    }
);

[brettcannon]

@jaraco it doesn't need to be from scratch, it just needs to be easily deployed and maintained.

I should also mention that there's a possibility of making this a status check where the "Details" link would point to the issue itself (it's an idea I have in the back of my head that I'm still thinking through).

[ezio-melotti]

FTR @berkerpeksag wrote https://github.com/berkerpeksag/cpython-bpo-linkify

[brettcannon]

Bedevere is now doing this indirectly through a status check for issue numbers.