What's your idea?
When commit is made, which is referencing specific issue, post a comment on that issue to notify people about the commit.
Some more info here: http://drupal.org/node/493074
What are the benefits?
Issue queue users will know when there was actually a commit for specific issue.
Also finding the 'fix' for an issue will be easier, just click the commit link and you see what needed to bge changed.
What are the risks?
How can we measure the impact of this idea? (metrics)
More comments in the issue database.
And a quicker respons to committed patches
Who directly benefits from / will use this improvement? (target audiences)
Drupal and contrib developers.
Comments
Backlinking issues, too?
I'd love to see this for referencing issues, as well: Github does both (example) and this type of stuff definitely makes it easier to follow along.
Open-source options
Redmine does too, if we'd like to self-host. I'm not sure if GitLab has this feature.
+1 Reading a
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Reading a "commited=>fixed" comment on the issue is somewhat useful, but not ideal. It does not tell you wether the fix is in -dev, 1.x or 2.x - much less so when looking at the issue a few months down the road.
To be able to track the issue/patch to specific commits/branches would help clarify the status quo on the issue.