[illumos-Developer] Fwd: Bug ID's in hg commit comments

[Cyril Plisko]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Michael <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> oops, sent to OP only by accident....
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> From: Michael <michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Bug ID's in hg commit comments
> To: Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Would it make sense to have commit messages that look like:
>>
>> io:12 libc breaks lex
>> Reviewed by: matt at greenviolet.net
>> Approved by: garrett at nexenta.com
>>
>> The added "io:" is shorthand for "illumos.org".
>
> good idea, but wouldn't the chance of confusing "io" with "I/O" be a
> little too high? I'd suggest using "illumos" - just 5 letters more :-)
>

ILLUMOS:XXXXXX Would be very easy to parse unambiguously at the
expense of a couple of extra bytes.
(speakng out of genunix.org experience)
That scheme is also very easy to expand to other issue id authorities
if need will arise.


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Regards,
        Cyril