twisted / twisted/twisted

Release note ticket numbers should be links

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Description

The release notes contain #1234 style references to tickets, and this note at the top:

Ticket numbers in this file can be looked up by visiting https://twisted.org/trac/ticket/<number>

This is awkward. As the release notes are no longer plain text they can be real links, like treq does:

https://github.com/twisted/treq/blob/0cf19207f46fb30fa18bc4e3505099743773e5a7/pyproject.toml#L15

We can migrate the old references too.

Complication: some tickets were migrated from Trac. Some were not.

This file lists the migrated tickets. Any ticket number greater than #11560 can be assumed to only exist in GitHub.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with NEWS.rst and review the ticket-link style shown in treq's pyproject.toml. Use redirect_trac_tickets.js to distinguish migrated tickets from tickets above #11560, then update the old references and the lookup note in NEWS.rst. Done means the release-note ticket numbers are links to the correct destination.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation, release
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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