On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:01 AM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > > It seems to me rather poor that readers of our CHANGES file have to manually > follow references to revision numbers and issue numbers. Examples: > [[[ > - Server-side bugfixes: > * svnadmin dump shouldn't canonicalize svn:date (issue #4767) > * 'svnadmin verify --keep-going --quiet' shows an error summary (r1837790) > ]]] > > I have shortcuts defined in my browser for going to a revision or an issue by > number, but must users don't, so I feel it is pretty unfriendly to them. > > As the file format is pretty regular, would anyone care to contemplate > post-processing it into HTML with the revision numbers and issue numbers as > hyperlinks? > > I would suggest keeping the current file format as the original and posting > the processed version somewhere. A static link in the original (text file) > could point to the canonical URL of the HTML version. Just a trunk version > would be sufficient initially, updated at least at every release and > preferably more often. >
I suggest to create a wiki variant (with hyperlinks) on our Confluence wiki, rather than just a HTML-ized version. That should be doable to automate, to go over the plain text version and replace #4767 into [#4767|https://.../SVN-4767] etc. (sorry, I'm not volunteering right now, it's just a suggestion -- I might find some time in a couple of weeks, but not immediately ... so if anyone else feels inclined ...) -- Johan
