537073 - "Bug XXXXX Description" in comments should be autolinkified (autolinkify, autolinkification)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191362

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

STR

1 Think smart and realize the pattern how you can autolinkify comments from a bug:
- look at the right side of comment's heading, where it says "comment 1" and
- use that string to achieve autolinkification as in "bug 11383 comment 1"

2 Apply the same pattern and try "bug 11383 description" with intent of autolinkifying (as the heading for comment 0 is always "description", we never show "comment 0")

Actual

- only "bug 11383" will be auto-linkified, but not the "description" of that bug (you have to use "bug 11383 comment 0" to linkify the description of that bug)

Exepected
- "bug 11383 description" should linkify the description (comment_0) of bug 11383
- "description of bug 11383" should also linkify the description of bug 11383

Caveat (considerations *beyond* this RFE)

while this is unambiguous for the use cases as proposed above (which should work), we cannot simply use the same concept when linking to the description of the same bug which is being commented on:
- look at "comment 0" is unambiguous -> will be autolinkified
- look at the "description" is ambiguous, could be the description of anything -> cannot be auto-linkified
Perhaps (NOT explicitly part of this RFE) the following could be autolinkified:
- "this bug's description" -> autolinkify this bug's comment #0
- "the description of this bug" -> autolinkify this bug's comment #0
This should be fine for a large percentage of use cases, but for a small percentage of fuzzy language use it may fail, like this:
- "Look at Bug 11383: the description of this bug shows..." where "this bug" is incorrectly/fuzzily used to refer to "that bug".
But that's all nits that are beyond the actual request of this bug.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

bug 359684 comment 8 has an interesting proof where someone intuitively tried to autolinkify the description of a bug (which supports this RFE) 
> as suggested in this Bug #359684 #Description

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

All these requests are covered by bug 191362.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

It's true that bug 191362 will pave the way for this bug (it's more easy to implement this bug after bug 191362 implements custom autolinkification rules). That might make this bug dependent on bug 191362. After implementing the facility for custom autolinkifation rules, we still have to decide which specific rules we want for a default installation of bugzilla, and/or for the particular installation of bmo. That's what this bug is about. Which to me doesn't look like a duplicate of bug 191362.

IMHO, this bug should be marked as NEW and dependent on bug 191362.