add github extension for easy links to issues/pulls.

adapted from Doug Hellmann's bitbucket extension.

docs/sphinxext/github.py

@@ -0,0 +1,155 b''
+"""Define text roles for GitHub
+
+* ghissue - Issue
+* ghpull - Pull Request
+* ghuser - User
+
+Adapted from bitbucket example here:
+https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx-contrib/src/tip/bitbucket/sphinxcontrib/bitbucket.py
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+* Doug Hellmann
+* Min RK
+"""
+#
+# Original Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann.  All rights reserved.
+#
+
+from docutils import nodes, utils
+from docutils.parsers.rst.roles import set_classes
+
+def make_link_node(rawtext, app, type, slug, options):
+    """Create a link to a github resource.
+
+    :param rawtext: Text being replaced with link node.
+    :param app: Sphinx application context
+    :param type: Link type (issue, changeset, etc.)
+    :param slug: ID of the thing to link to
+    :param options: Options dictionary passed to role func.
+    """
+
+    try:
+        base = app.config.github_project_url
+        if not base:
+            raise AttributeError
+        if not base.endswith('/'):
+            base += '/'
+    except AttributeError, err:
+        raise ValueError('github_project_url configuration value is not set (%s)' % str(err))
+
+    ref = base + type + '/' + slug + '/'
+    set_classes(options)
+    prefix = "#"
+    if type == 'pull':
+        prefix = "PR " + prefix
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, prefix + utils.unescape(slug), refuri=ref,
+                           **options)
+    return node
+
+def ghissue_role(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    """Link to a GitHub issue.
+
+    Returns 2 part tuple containing list of nodes to insert into the
+    document and a list of system messages.  Both are allowed to be
+    empty.
+
+    :param name: The role name used in the document.
+    :param rawtext: The entire markup snippet, with role.
+    :param text: The text marked with the role.
+    :param lineno: The line number where rawtext appears in the input.
+    :param inliner: The inliner instance that called us.
+    :param options: Directive options for customization.
+    :param content: The directive content for customization.
+    """
+
+    try:
+        issue_num = int(text)
+        if issue_num <= 0:
+            raise ValueError
+    except ValueError:
+        msg = inliner.reporter.error(
+            'GitHub issue number must be a number greater than or equal to 1; '
+            '"%s" is invalid.' % text, line=lineno)
+        prb = inliner.problematic(rawtext, rawtext, msg)
+        return [prb], [msg]
+    app = inliner.document.settings.env.app
+    #app.info('issue %r' % text)
+    if 'pull' in name.lower():
+        category = 'pull'
+    elif 'issue' in name.lower():
+        category = 'issue'
+    else:
+        msg = inliner.reporter.error(
+            'GitHub roles include "ghpull" and "ghissue", '
+            '"%s" is invalid.' % name, line=lineno)
+        prb = inliner.problematic(rawtext, rawtext, msg)
+        return [prb], [msg]
+    node = make_link_node(rawtext, app, category, str(issue_num), options)
+    return [node], []
+
+def ghuser_role(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    """Link to a GitHub user.
+
+    Returns 2 part tuple containing list of nodes to insert into the
+    document and a list of system messages.  Both are allowed to be
+    empty.
+
+    :param name: The role name used in the document.
+    :param rawtext: The entire markup snippet, with role.
+    :param text: The text marked with the role.
+    :param lineno: The line number where rawtext appears in the input.
+    :param inliner: The inliner instance that called us.
+    :param options: Directive options for customization.
+    :param content: The directive content for customization.
+    """
+    app = inliner.document.settings.env.app
+    #app.info('user link %r' % text)
+    ref = 'https://www.github.com/' + text
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, text, refuri=ref, **options)
+    return [node], []
+
+def ghcommit_role(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    """Link to a GitHub commit.
+
+    Returns 2 part tuple containing list of nodes to insert into the
+    document and a list of system messages.  Both are allowed to be
+    empty.
+
+    :param name: The role name used in the document.
+    :param rawtext: The entire markup snippet, with role.
+    :param text: The text marked with the role.
+    :param lineno: The line number where rawtext appears in the input.
+    :param inliner: The inliner instance that called us.
+    :param options: Directive options for customization.
+    :param content: The directive content for customization.
+    """
+    app = inliner.document.settings.env.app
+    #app.info('user link %r' % text)
+    try:
+        base = app.config.github_project_url
+        if not base:
+            raise AttributeError
+        if not base.endswith('/'):
+            base += '/'
+    except AttributeError, err:
+        raise ValueError('github_project_url configuration value is not set (%s)' % str(err))
+
+    ref = base + text
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, text[:6], refuri=ref, **options)
+    return [node], []
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    """Install the plugin.
+    
+    :param app: Sphinx application context.
+    """
+    app.info('Initializing GitHub plugin')
+    app.add_role('ghissue', ghissue_role)
+    app.add_role('ghpull', ghissue_role)
+    app.add_role('ghuser', ghuser_role)
+    app.add_role('ghcommit', ghcommit_role)
+    app.add_config_value('github_project_url', None, 'env')
+    return

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -44,6 +44,7 b' extensions = ['
     'inheritance_diagram',
     'ipython_console_highlighting',
     'numpydoc',  # to preprocess docstrings
+    'github',  # for easy GitHub links
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
@@ -59,6 +60,9 b" master_doc = 'index'"
 project = 'IPython'
 copyright = '2008, The IPython Development Team'
 
+# ghissue config
+github_project_url = "https://github.com/ipython/ipython"
+
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
 # other places throughout the built documents.
 #