#8119 closed enhancement (invalid)
Include pages referenced in commit messages
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Geert | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | WantedPagesMacro |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.11 |
Description
We find ourselves referencing wiki pages in our commit messages quite a bit. Occasionally, we refer to pages we mean to write in the near future but never get around to doing so. A visual reminder in the list of wanted pages would be neat.
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Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
| Owner: | changed from Justin Francis to Ryan J Ollos |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by
| Component: | WantedPagesPlugin → WantedPagesMacro |
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comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
| Owner: | changed from Ryan J Ollos to Geert |
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comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
The scope of WantedPagesMacro is to find links to missing wiki pages referenced by other wiki pages. Commit messages are part of the version control system and as such are out of the scope of this macro.
I propose to close this ticket as invalid.
Please let me know if I misinterpreted the request.
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by
While I understand your point about commit messages being part of the VCS, they are also visible in the timeline by default and with very little effort in the tickets referenced in the commit message.
From the WantedPagesMacro description:
Lists all wiki pages that are linked to but not created in wikis, ticket descriptions and ticket comments. That is, when a camel-case identifier is listed in a wiki page, then a link is created to that page, but if that page does not exist then the link exists but the page is not created.
So it sounds like tickets are part of the scope too (or the description needs fixing). In that case and since our commit messages end up on any ticket pages they reference, any wiki pages referred to but not yet created should normally be picked up by the WantedPagesMacro. We'd miss out though on messages that don't refer to a ticket. This kind of partial coverage of commit messages would be somewhat surprising. Of course, requiring all commit messages to mention a ticket would fix this. Still, it'd be nice if such a local policy would not be needed.
BTW, it would be nice if the timeline could be included in the scope too, seeing that that includes commit messages by default.
Renaming plugin from WantedPagesPlugin to WantedPagesMacro.