[webkit-dev] Changes to prepare-ChangeLog

[David Kilzer]

On Thursday, July 9, 2009 11:11:05 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 9, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 
> >> (the /b/ URL is a redirect):
> > 
> > I'm like most everything suggested in this thread.
> > 
> > But I'm a little sad that these new shorter URLs are redirects. I really like 
> to copy URLs out of the address field, so I’d want the legacy show_bug.cgi one 
> to be the redirect, and the terse one to be the real URL. But that seems 
> impossible, possibly eternally so, if the /b/ one is at webkit.org and not on 
> the actual bugs.webkit.org server.
> 
> Mark and I discussed this and had two ideas:
> 
> 1) Something draggable/copyable in the bugzilla page that gives you the short 
> URL plus title in ChangeLog format.
> 2) A keyboard shortcut (perhaps Cmd+Shift+C?) to put the short URL plus title
> on the pasteboard for ease of pasting


Or the tool you use to attach patches to bugs.webkit.org could do the substitution of the bugs.webkit.org URL to the webkit.org URL for you so you don't have to think about it (much).

Or prepare-ChangeLog could preformat it for you so you only have to copy and paste the bug id:

        <http://webkit.org/b/BUGID> This is your bug title
        Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!).

Dave