Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> For some value of "we".  CONTRIBUTE still requires to use
> "Fixes: bug#NNNN", and that's what I've switched to once those
> requirements were written.  Which was already a change from the
> previous procedure, which preferred simply "Bug#NNNN".
>
> I wish you guys settle on something once and for all, never mind what,

"you guys"?  I thought you were one of us!  :-)

I did not choose the "Fixes: bug#NNNN" syntax.  I vaguely recall it came from an 
offhand remark in one of Stefan's emails a few months ago and that it migrated 
into CONTRIBUTE when Stephen Leake attempted to summarize that discussion, but 
possibly it was a typo in Stefan's message and anyway I expect he doesn't much 
care what the format is.

 From the earlier discussion in this thread it appears that the "Fixes: 
debbugs:NNNN" syntax is an artifact of the Bzr-to-Git conversion that now causes 
more confusion than it's worth.  To try to lessen this I installed the attached 
patches (the third one is mechanical; it's the result of 'make change-history').