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Should DWYLBOT automatically reject a PR that does not reference issues in commit messages?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. First clarify the desired DWYLBOT behavior, how commit messages should reference issues, and what rejection workflow and acceptance criteria should apply.

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Description

discuss help wanted question

Please note: I am not "picking" on anyone in particular. 🤔
But often I get PRs assigned to me for review where the commit messages are not referencing (linking to) the issue being worked on. this makes it more difficult to follow from a QA perspective and destroys the possibility of giving a future developer context into why code is a certain way.

Perhaps an illustration of why this is important might be useful...?

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