Open Stack

On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 12:14 -0400, Zane Bitter wrote:
> On 10/09/18 10:34 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2018-09-10 14:43:18 +0100 (+0100), Adam Coldrick wrote:
> > [...]
> > > # Linking to projects by name
> > > 
> > > Keen observers might've noticed that StoryBoard recently grew the
> > > ability
> > > to link to projects by name, rather than by ID number. All the links
> > > to
> > > projects in the UI have been replaced with links in this form, and
> > > its
> > > probably a good idea for folk to start using them in any
> > > documentation
> > > they have. These links look like
> > > 
> > >    https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack-infra/story
> > > board
> 
> Thanks for this!!!
> 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Worth noting, this has made it harder to find the numeric project ID
> > without falling back on the API. Change
> > https://review.openstack.org/600893 merged to the releases
> > repository yesterday allowing deliverable repositories to be
> > referenced by their StoryBoard project name rather than only the ID
> > number. If there are other places in tooling and automation where we
> > relied on the project ID number, work should be done to update those
> > similarly.
> 
> In the docs configuration we use the ID for the generating the bugs 
> link. We also rely on it being a numeric ID (as a string - it crashes
> if 
> you use an int) rather than a string to determine whether the target is 
> a launchpad project or a storyboard project.

If it'll be a big task to change this, I'm happy to make the ID more
discoverable from the StoryBoard web UI so that it isn't painful for folk
in the meantime.