These seem like rather isolated incidents to me. For 9906, the comment should have been much more specific. "In the title, change 'pbo' to 'bpo'. A core developer would (I hope) have just made the change, but I am guessing that you currently cannot . For 9755, the new contributor put the bpo number in the commit message, where it should not be, instead of in the title, where it belongs and where it is left alone.

But I agree that Bedevere should not rewrite inside backticks, as used in 9755.
(Since the PR numbers are already link above, I left '#' off to avoid adding backlink noise to the PRs. )

I guess it would be suitable if the bot wouldn't auto-expand links in inline code blocks and mutliline code blocks. That should do the job. Are you working on this @tirkarthi?

For 9755, the new contributor put the bpo number in the commit message, where it should not be, instead of in the title, where it belongs and where it is left alone.

@terryjreedy I'm a bit confused when you say that, since I haven't put the bpo number in the commit message, I could be wrong here but could you clear this up for me?

@danishprakash No, I am not working on this.

@terryjreedy Yes, I can see the feature being useful but it's just that it can be avoided inside the backticks. But it's just a suggestion though based on the two PRs and I am okay if this is not implemented.

Thanks

@terryjreedy I'm also confused by your comment. The problem in 9755 had nothing to do with the original contributor's PR; it's that the bot incorrectly altered the comments that Carol and I made.

If nobody's working on it, I'd love to fix this.

@danishprakash and @ned-deily I must have somehow gotten the impression from "regarding putting the bug tracker link in the commit message" that something about the tracker had been there and edited out. If untrue, I apologize. Changing the title generates an automatic edit comment. This seems not true of editing a comment.

There are two actions that are jointly confusing. Bedevere 'hyperlinks' in the sense of re-writing "bpo-12345" as the marked-up text "[bpo-12345](https://www.bugs.python.org/issue12345)". Github 'hyperlinks in the sense of replacing such marked-up text with an actual hyperlink: "bpo-12345". Github does not interpret markup within backticks, which is how I could display the markup bedevere writes and why the sample above looks like code. (To see what I wrote, click '...', Edit, and the 'Write' tab.) The title of this issue would be slightly clearer with 'Automatically hyperlinking' replaced by the more specific "Bedevere re-writing".

On my 9755 comment, I originally wrote I see "[3.6] bpo-34901" on this tab (but as normal text, not code text). Bedevere rewrote the quote of what I see as "[3.6] [bpo-34901](https://bugs.python.org/issue34901)" and since I did not originally use backticks, github converted the hyperlink markup to hyperlinked text: "[3.6] bpo-34901". No, I do not see a clickable hyperlink on the Firefox tab ;-).

@storymode7 Suppressing bedevere's rewriting at least within backticks is really needed. Since no one else has reported working on this, please go ahead.

@storymode7 we're still discussing the possible way to go forward with this. As discussed in the other thread, It's preferred to have the bot leave code blocks untouched. I'm working on this but a solid decision from the core members is what's required before I submit any patch.

@danishprakash sure. Let me know if I can be of any help.

Here's another example of the bot breaking marked-up code:

python/cpython#10021 (comment)

Autolinking is now supported by GitHub and I've enabled it in CPython.

Still working on removing the autolink in bedevere.
Related issue: python/core-workflow#361