Automatic linking to Bug # could be be smarter

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

When LP automatically creates a link to Bug #, it should look at the preceding word to determine if a link really should be created to another LP Bug.

 For instance, in Bug 289649 I wrote:

"This is probably due to Gnome Bug 170858 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170858). gnome-netstatus use GnomeAbout which is deprecated it should use GtkAboutDialog."

LP could see the word Gnome and either not create a link or create one to the actual Gnome bug.

Of course this would be hard to get right all of the time, but for certain project that are mentioned frequently this could make sense. Possibly also not creating a link when preceded by the word "upstream."

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

I suspect this is almost impossible to get right.
It takes a lot of guessing, and a lot of gardening. It is annoying though, but I don't know what the answer is...

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

Doing better guesswork will not be easy. The solution is to allow some kind of wiki markup in bug comments (and other free-form user input in LP).