Pull request names

Rikki Cattermole alphaglosined at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 01:38:30 PDT 2014


On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 17:49:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> To all who are generating pull requests:
>
> I get emails for every pull request message that is posted, as 
> do anyone who is subscribed to the github project.
>
> A recent message in my email:
>
>
>
> Re: [phobos] Fix issue 12419 (#2038)
>
> @monarchdodra Good point, done.
>
> -
> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.
>
>
>
>
> The "view it on Github" is a link to the message. So I can see 
> what this is about. But it would be nice if the pull request 
> title was more descriptive. I don't know what issue 12419 is.
>
> Please note, I am not complaining about the volume of pull 
> request chatter, this is great! But the title of the pull 
> request should describe what it logically is without having to 
> click through to a bug report or read everything about the pull 
> request.
>
> If you want to say "fix issue XXX", please repeat the bug title 
> at least.
>
> -Steve

I wonder if we can get github to add support to linking our 
bugzilla tickets against #<num> like they do with the built in 
tracker. Unless it already has it?


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