sphinx-issues 5.0.1
A Sphinx extension for linking to your project's issue tracker
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: sphinx, issues, github

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sphinx-issues
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A Sphinx extension for linking to your project's issue tracker. Includes roles for linking to issues, pull requests, user profiles, with built-in support for GitHub (though this works with other services).

Example
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For an example usage, check out `marshmallow's changelog <http://marshmallow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html>`_, which makes use of the roles in this library.

Installation and Configuration
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.. code-block:: console

    pip install sphinx-issues


Add ``sphinx_issues`` to ``extensions`` in your ``conf.py``.

The extension has default values for GitHub projects.
Add the ``issues_github_path`` config variable and you are good
to go:

.. code-block:: python

    # docs/conf.py

    # ...
    extensions = [
        # ...
        "sphinx_issues"
    ]

    # Path to GitHub repo {group}/{project}  (note that `group` is the GitHub user or organization)
    issues_github_path = "sloria/marshmallow"

    # which is the equivalent to:
    issues_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/issues/{issue}"
    issues_prefix = "#"
    issues_pr_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/pull/{pr}"
    issues_pr_prefix = "#"
    issues_commit_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/commit/{commit}"
    issues_commit_prefix = "@"
    issues_user_uri = "https://github.com/{user}"
    issues_user_prefix = "@"

You can also use this extension with other issue trackers. Here is how you could configure it for a hosted GitLab instance:

.. code-block:: python

    # docs/conf.py

    # ...
    extensions = [
        # ...
        "sphinx_issues"
    ]

    #  Default repo {group}/{project} of gitlab project
    issues_default_group_project = "myteam/super_great_project"
    issues_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/issues/{issue}"
    issues_prefix = "#"
    issues_pr_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/merge_requests/{pr}"
    issues_pr_prefix = "!"
    issues_commit_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/commit/{commit}"
    issues_commit_prefix = "@"
    issues_user_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{user}"
    issues_user_prefix = "@"


Usage inside the documentation
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Use the ``:issue:``  and ``:pr:`` roles in your docs like so:

.. code-block:: rst

    See issue :issue:`42`

    See issues :issue:`12,13`

    See :issue:`sloria/konch#45`.

    See PR :pr:`58`


The ``:user:`` role links to user profiles (GitHub by default, but can be configured via the ``issues_user_uri`` config variable).

The ``:commit:`` role links to commits.

.. code-block:: rst

    Fixed in :commit:`6bb9124d5e9dbb2f7b52864c3d8af7feb1b69403`.

.. code-block:: rst

    Thanks to :user:`bitprophet` for the idea!

You can also change the text of the hyperlink:

.. code-block:: rst

    This change is due to :user:`Andreas Mueller <amueller>`.

The syntax ``:role:`My custom title <target>``` works for all roles of this extension.

.. code-block:: rst

    Fix bad bug :issue:`123, 199 (Duplicate) <123>`

The ``:pypi:`` role links to project pages on `PyPI <https://pypi.org>`_.

.. code-block:: rst

    :pypi:`sphinx-issues` - A Sphinx extension for linking to your project's issue tracker.

Important note about :cwe: and :cve: roles
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The ``:cwe:`` and ``:cve:`` are included within `newer versions of Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/roles.html#role-cve>`_.
If you use these roles and are using Sphinx<8.1, you will need to
install sphinx-issues<5.

Credits
*******

Credit goes to Jeff Forcier for his work on the `releases <https://github.com/bitprophet/releases>`_ extension, which is a full-featured solution for generating changelogs. I just needed a quick way to reference GitHub issues in my docs, so I yoinked the bits that I needed.

License
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MIT licensed. See the bundled `LICENSE <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/blob/master/LICENSE>`_ file for more details.


Changelog
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5.0.1 (2025-04-10)
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- Properly handle user and org names with symbols in them (`#174 <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/issues/174>`_).
  Thanks @ilan-gold for reporting and @flying-sheep for the PR.

5.0.0 (2024-10-11)
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- Remove `:cwe:` and `:cve:` roles, as these are officially included in Sphinx>=8.1.0.
- Support Python 3.9-3.13. Python 3.8 is no longer supported.

4.1.0 (2024-04-14)
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- Add `:pypi:` role for linking to PyPI projects (`#144 <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/issues/144>`_).
  Thanks @shenxianpeng for the suggestion and PR.

4.0.0 (2024-01-19)
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- Default to linking GH Sponsors for the :user: role (`#129 <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/issues/129>`_).
  Thanks @webknjaz for the suggestion.
- Support Python 3.8-3.12. Older versions are no longer supported.
- *Backwards-incompatible*: Remove ``__version__``, ``__author__``, and ``__license__`` attributes.
  Use ``importlib.metadata`` to read this metadata instead.

3.0.1 (2022-01-11)
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- Fix regression from 3.0.0: `exception: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not type`.

3.0.0 (2022-01-10)
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- The `:commit:` role now outputs with an `@` prefix.
- Add configuration options for changing prefixes.
- Allow `{group}` to be specified within `issues_uri`, `issues_pr_uri`, `issues_commit_uri`, and 

2.0.0 (2022-01-01)
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- Drop support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.
- Test against Python 3.8 to 3.10.
- Add ``:cwe:`` role for linking to CVEs on https://cwe.mitre.org.
  Thanks @hugovk for the PR.
- Add support for custom urls and separators `Issue #93 <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/issues/93>`_
- Allow custom titles for all roles `Issue #116 <https://github.com/sloria/sphinx-issues/issues/116>`_
- Added setting `issues_default_group_project` as future replacement of `issues_github_path`, to reflect the now to universal nature of the extension

1.2.0 (2018-12-26)
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- Add ``:commit:`` role for linking to commits.
- Add support for linking to external repos.
- Test against Python 3.7.

1.1.0 (2018-09-18)
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- Add ``:cve:`` role for linking to CVEs on https://cve.mitre.org.

1.0.0 (2018-07-14)
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- Add ``:pr:`` role. Thanks @jnotham for the suggestion.
- Drop support for Python 3.4.

0.4.0 (2017-11-25)
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- Raise ``ValueError`` if neither ``issues_uri`` nor ``issues_github_path`` is set. Thanks @jnothman for the PR.
- Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.

0.3.1 (2017-01-16)
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- ``setup`` returns metadata, preventing warnings about parallel reads and writes. Thanks @jfinkels for reporting.

0.3.0 (2016-10-20)
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- Support anchor text for ``:user:`` role. Thanks @jnothman for the suggestion and thanks @amueller for the PR.

0.2.0 (2014-12-22)
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- Add ``:user:`` role for linking to GitHub user profiles.

0.1.0 (2014-12-21)
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- Initial release.