On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > In the end I decided NOT to do the history mutation/rewrite basically > because I didn't discuss this with python-committers ahead of time (so it's > entirely my fault this didn't go forward). The history of this repo -- along > with the code -- is collectively owned by all of the people who have > contributed to it. The idea of mutating the history like this was not > discussed with the stakeholders/contributors of that history ahead of time > and thus I don't feel it is my place to unilaterally muck with it without > having a proper discussion ahead of time (I unfortunately didn't have this > thought until this morning). While I realize I have been given the rights to > change our workflow, none of these changes are permanent (as our regular > changes to it show :) . But changing the history is permanent and thus a > much heftier thing to do with the dictatorial powers I have for this > migration. > > Had I thought to reach out ahead of time then it's possible I could have > gotten the permission necessary. But since leaving this as-is doesn't hurt > anything (thanks to GH doing the linking eagerly and thus not picking up any > of the issue numbers that pre-exist), I felt it was better to err on the > side of caution and not upset people by springing this on them. > > Obviously a huge thanks to Senthil and Ezio for giving this a go. The regex > will be useful for anyone who wants to write a browser plug-in to add the > automatic linking so I don't view the work as wasted.
+1, I've already started to write an extension and I'm converting the regex to JS flavor now so thanks again Senthil and Ezio! --Berker _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list core-workflow@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
