autolinked bugs should expand bug #xxx to full link in email

Bug #79238 reported by Dean Sas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

When receiving a bug comment by email you get something like "note: this may be a dupe of #XXX" it would be nice if this was expanded to "note: this may be a dupe of http://launchpad.net/bugs/XXX" that way it's quicker and easier to visit the bug referenced.

I guess this is similar to bug #29345

Tags: lp-bugs
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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

It's not similar to bug 29345 in that the duplicate notation is constructed by Launchpad.

So what you're suggesting is that bug references in comments always be expanded to URLs? That's an interesting idea. Would that not cause text to wrap poorly, though?

Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

Hmm, yes I guess it would, that's certainly a drawback.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

We could add a section in the footer saying:

Bugs referenced in this message:
- Bug 33145
  Microsoft has a minority market share
  https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/33145
- Bug 46237
  Pluto is no longer a planet
  https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/46237

that might help. Or we could just try expanding and see how it ended up.

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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

Christian, I think that sounds like a nice solution, but if I understand properly the "Bug 33145" bit, would mean sending out HTML emails, which would probably annoy a sizable amount of vocal users...

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Oh, I wasn't suggesting making "Bug 33145" a link (and no, no HTML email). That's why I actually included the link just below the title in the footer, see?

Bug comments are auto-linkified here, which is why you may have been confused. :-)

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

heh, of course. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → gmb
Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 1.1.11 → 1.1.12
Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in malone:
assignee: gmb → sinzui-is
milestone: 1.1.12 → 1.2.4
Changed in malone:
milestone: 1.2.4 → 1.2.5
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Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) wrote :

Curtis doesn't have spare cycles to work on this before 2.0.

Changed in malone:
milestone: 1.2.5 → none
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → nobody
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