Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ChangeLog policy change after GDB 11

[Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 6/28/21 2:41 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On 2021-06-28 1:28 p.m., Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> What about...
>>
>>      Bug: PR gdb/1234
>>
>> ... or...
>>
>>      Xref: PR gdb/1234
>>
>> ?
> 
> Regardless of the name of the trailer we choose, what if we put the URL
> as the value:
> 
>    Fixes: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1234
> 
> That makes it clickable, so it's much easier to go consult it.  If, for
> some reason, the bugzilla URL changed, the bug number is still in the
> URL, so we don't lose anything doing so.  We just lose the "component"
> part, "gdb" in your example.  But I don't think it's important to have
> it here in the commit message, it doesn't really give important
> information.
> 
> Simon
> 

I like the idea of pasting the URL. It is indeed much easier to consult.