Automatic URLs in forgejo? (was Re: Sourceware forge experiment)

[David Malcolm via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 03:22 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> As an experiment Sourceware is now running an forgejo v9 instance at
> https://forge.sourceware.org
> 
> Everybody with an @sourceware.org, @cygwin.com or @gcc.gnu.org
> address
> can register an account (please use the same user name as your
> account
> name).
> 
> The setup has disabled most "extras" (no badges, stars, issues,
> wikis,
> packages, timetracking, milestones, etc.). And users can only fork
> existing repos (it has mirrors of various sourceware projects). Some
> things haven't been setup yet (external trackers/bugzilla, incoming
> email, ci, etc.)
> 
> The full setup can be found in this git repository:
> https://sourceware.org/cgit/forge/
> 
> For now it is only open for existing maintainers/developers for
> experimentating with a pull-request model. We can add others as long
> as they understand this is an experiment and does not mean projects
> are accepting patches through it. Contributions should still be sent
> through the mailinglists.
> 
> There is also a new mailinglist for discussion about the setup and
> the
> best way to create a pull-request workflow. Please subscribe if you
> create an account and mention which project/organization you would
> like do some experiments for. We can then add you to that
> organization.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/forge

Thanks for setting this up.

How easy would it be to set up automatic URL generation in the web UI
from regexes on the text of commit subjects/message? 

GCC has its own short notation for referring to commits, see e.g. 

https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/83abdb041426b7490e93c3f77be93148bcd94de3
where I wrote:
"I believe this hasn't been necessary since r15-1413-gd3878c85f331c7."
It would be nice if the "r15-1413-gd3878c85f331c7" were to get auto-
urlified in the web UI to
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/d3878c85f331c7

Similarly, in GCC we use the notation PRnnnnnn or PR component/nnnnnn
to refer to "problem reports" in bugzilla.  Looking at e.g.
https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/65c5bbe1c92f9c08e99d3a37c136f2ef9804a37f
it would be nice if the "PR114423" in the subject line and the 
"PR preprocessor/114423" in the ChangeLog fragments in the commit log
got auto-urlified in the web UI to:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114423

Other projects sharing the forgejo instance have other notations,
policies, and bug tracker instances, of course.

FWIW I seem to recall seeing something like this working in the
instance that was recently demoed at Cauldron.

Hope this is constructive; thanks again
Dave