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Two fixes to the GitHub → Trac comment syncer.

A pull request could be mentioned on a ticket twice. GitHub delivers several pull_request events at once — WordPress/wordpress-develop#13527 got opened and review_requested in the same second, and both commented on Core #65845. Only one row was ever added, because the trac_2 unique key refused the second insert, but $wpdb->insert()'s return value was never read. It now gates the ticket comment, so only the request that recorded the reference announces it.

Markdown headings reached Trac as literal text. Trac reads WikiCreole's =, not Markdown's #, so ## Summary rendered as ## Summary. Headings now convert to == Summary ==, and a body line opening with = is escaped first so that only the composer writes one.

36 new tests cover the heading conversion, including citations, fenced blocks, inline code and a deeply quoted line that exhausts PCRE's stack. The webhook change needs a live database and is not covered.

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  • New Features

    • Markdown headings in GitHub content now render as properly formatted Trac headings, including cited headings and headings containing links or images.
    • Code blocks and inline code retain their original hash characters.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Trac ticket matching to prevent duplicate ticket mentions.
    • Preserved non-heading hash lines and correctly handled escaped, nested, and Unicode-spaced heading content.

obenland and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 15:36
Trac reads WikiCreole's `=` rather than Markdown's `#`, so every heading in a pull
request description has been reaching the ticket as its own literal text. The
comment composer now writes a Trac heading of the same depth, and escapes a
line-opening `=` in the body first so that only the markup it writes is markup.

Headings are converted per span of the fence split, which begins and ends where a
line does, so a heading holding inline code stays one heading and a `#` inside a
fenced block stays code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub delivers several `pull_request` events for one pull request at once, and the
webhook read `trac_github_prs` for an existing ticket reference before inserting
one. Two deliveries a second apart both read before either wrote, so both went on
to comment on the ticket.

Only one row was ever added: the `trac_2` unique key over `trac`, `ticket`, `repo`
and `pr` refused the second. Its insert returned false and nothing looked, so the
comment was posted anyway. Reading that result is the whole fix, and the unique key
is what makes it exact however the two deliveries interleave.

The read is kept. It cannot be relied on to tell the deliveries apart, but it keeps
every later event for a recorded pull request from attempting an insert that the
unique key would only refuse. Its ticket comparison is made numeric for the same
reason: the column is an integer, and a strict comparison against the string the
reference was parsed from would miss every time were it ever read back as one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR converts Markdown headings to Trac markup in formatted comments, adds heading-focused tests, and prevents duplicate Trac mentions when a PR-ticket link already exists.

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Trac comment heading conversion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Heading conversion and formatting integration
api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/functions.php
Adds trac_comment_headings() and applies it to non-code spans before WikiCreole formatting. The conversion handles citations, closing hashes, Unicode separators, and Trac marker escaping.
Heading conversion test coverage
api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/tests/Trac_Comment_Heading_Test.php
Tests heading levels, citations, code blocks, inline formatting, inert hash lines, Unicode whitespace, escaping, and deeply nested citations.

Trac mention deduplication

Layer / File(s) Summary
PR-ticket insertion and mention gating
api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php
Compares ticket IDs as integers, records insert success, and creates mentions only for newly inserted PR-ticket links.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant GitHubContent
  participant trac_comment_headings
  participant trac_comment_wiki_text
  GitHubContent->>trac_comment_headings: Pass non-code content
  trac_comment_headings->>trac_comment_wiki_text: Return Trac heading markup
  trac_comment_wiki_text->>GitHubContent: Return formatted comment
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A transient Trac failure can leave a pull request linked but never announced, while missing webhook coverage leaves the deduplication behavior unprotected. These should be addressed before merge.

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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/functions.php`:
- Line 507: Update the heading-marker regex in trac_comment_skipped() to reuse
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The escape written for a heading marker only stepped over ASCII spaces, tabs and a
citation's `>`, but Trac reads a line with Python's whitespace class, which is
wider. A pull request body could open a line with a no-break space and have the
`=` behind it render as a heading of its own.

`trac_comment_skipped()` already names that class for the two patterns either side
of this one, so it names it here too.

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🟡 Minor · Escape Trac headings with Unicode whitespace. · api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/functions.php:506-525

506-525: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Escape Trac headings with Unicode whitespace. Trac’s heading parser accepts Unicode whitespace, including a non-breaking space, after one to six = characters. The current expression matches only ASCII space and tab, so == text can reach Trac as an unintended heading.

Use the shared Unicode whitespace class, excluding > because it is a citation marker.

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-	$text = preg_replace( "~^{$skipped}*\K(?=={1,6}[ \t])~mu", '!', $text );
+	$text = preg_replace( "~^{$skipped}*\K(?=={1,6}[ \t\x1c-\x1f\p{Z}])~mu", '!', $text );
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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/functions.php` around lines 506
- 525, Update trac_comment_headings to use the shared Unicode whitespace class
in the heading-detection expression after one to six equals signs, excluding the
citation marker character >. Ensure headings with Unicode whitespace, including
non-breaking spaces, are escaped while preserving citation handling.
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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/functions.php`:
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whitespace class in the heading-detection expression after one to six equals
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The previous commit widened the whitespace a heading marker may hide behind but
left the whitespace that separates the marker from its title as ASCII, so a `=`
run followed by a no-break space still reached Trac as a heading.

The citation marker is dropped from that second class: Trac separates a heading
with whitespace alone, so a `>` after the `=` run is text, and escaping it would
put a literal `!` in front of an arrow.

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Escape Trac headings with Unicode whitespace. (functions.php:506-525)

Fixed in 66d864a. Verified — ==<U+00A0>Summary did reach Trac unescaped. The previous commit widened the whitespace a marker may hide behind but left the whitespace separating the marker from its title as ASCII, which is the same miss one character to the right.

Took the suggestion's direction but derived the class rather than repeating it, so the two stay in step if trac_comment_skipped() ever changes:

$skipped = trac_comment_skipped();

// A heading is separated by whitespace alone; a `>` after its `=` run is text.
$space = str_replace( '>', '', $skipped );

Dropping > is right and worth stating explicitly: Trac separates a heading with whitespace only, so ==> not a heading is prose. Including it would put a literal ! in front of every arrow. Added that as a case in data_inert_equals, alongside separator cases for U+00A0 and U+2002 and a cited one. Re-checked that a 7-= run and ==Summary with no separator both stay inert, and that the 32,000-level citation still composes. 118 tests.

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🟠 Major · Keep failed Trac announcements retryable. · api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php:89-168

89-168: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep failed Trac announcements retryable.

When $wpdb->insert() succeeds, $new_ref becomes true and the handler records the association before calling $trac->update(). If that update throws, the exception is ignored and the row remains committed. A later pull-request delivery finds the matching row, sets $new_ref to false, and skips the announcement block. This can lose the PR-to-Trac announcement for all later pull-request deliveries.

Store the association and announcement status separately, retry unsent announcements, or otherwise ensure a failed Trac update does not make the association appear fully handled.

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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php` around lines 89 -
168, Update the association and announcement flow around the `$new_ref`
assignment, `$wpdb->insert()`, and `$trac->update()` so a failed Trac update
remains retryable on later deliveries. Track whether the announcement was
successfully sent separately from whether the database association exists, and
ensure retries execute the announcement without duplicating successful
announcements.
🟡 Minor · Cover both insert-result branches in a focused webhook test. · api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php:89-116

89-116: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover both insert-result branches in a focused webhook test.

The checked-in PHPUnit tests cover formatting helpers only. They do not exercise webhook.php, $wpdb->insert(), or the Trac mention call. Add a focused fixture or mock with these assertions:

  • A truthy $wpdb->insert() result for a new PR-ticket association causes exactly one Trac mention.
  • An existing matching association skips the insert and causes no additional Trac mention.

The PHPUnit harness can host these mocks, but it does not currently provide the webhook’s WordPress, database, or Trac setup. This test protects the new $new_ref gate and is distinct from testing failed Trac announcements.

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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php` around lines 89 -
116, Add focused PHPUnit coverage around the webhook flow using suitable
WordPress, database, and Trac fixtures or mocks: verify a truthy $wpdb->insert()
result for a new PR-ticket association triggers exactly one Trac mention, and
verify an existing matching association skips the insert and adds no mention.
Target the $new_ref gate and distinguish these cases from failed Trac
announcements.
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In `@api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/trac/pr/webhook.php`:
- Around line 89-168: Update the association and announcement flow around the
`$new_ref` assignment, `$wpdb->insert()`, and `$trac->update()` so a failed Trac
update remains retryable on later deliveries. Track whether the announcement was
successfully sent separately from whether the database association exists, and
ensure retries execute the announcement without duplicating successful
announcements.
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suitable WordPress, database, and Trac fixtures or mocks: verify a truthy
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mention, and verify an existing matching association skips the insert and adds
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Two findings in the latest review, both on webhook.php. Both describe real behaviour; I don't think either belongs in this PR.

Keep failed Trac announcements retryable (webhook.php:89-168)

Accurate, but it predates this PR and is unchanged by it. On trunk today the order is already insert-then-announce, with the same swallowed exception:

} catch( \Exception $e ) {
    // For now, nothing.
}

A later delivery has always found the row via $matched_existing_ref and skipped the block, so a failed $trac->update() has always meant no announcement. This PR does not touch the ordering or the catch.

The only behavioural change is inside the concurrent-race window: a delivery whose insert lost to the unique key no longer announces. That delivery was announcing unconditionally before — that is the bug this PR fixes — and it was never a retry, since it didn't know whether the winner's Trac call had succeeded.

Making announcements genuinely retryable needs state this table doesn't carry: an announced column, or a queue, plus a decision about what to do when Trac is down for hours. That's a design change worth its own Meta Trac ticket, not a rider on a nine-line fix.

Cover both insert-result branches in a focused webhook test (webhook.php:89-116)

Agreed that it's uncovered — I've said as much in the PR description. Declining anyway, on cost.

webhook.php is a top-level switch over $_SERVER['HTTP_X_GITHUB_EVENT'] that die()s on each branch, and it opens with require .../wp-init.php, which lives in the private dotorg repository and isn't available to the test suite. There's no seam to mock against: covering the $new_ref gate means extracting the whole pull_request case into a function and building WordPress, database and Trac harnesses for it.

That's a much larger change than the bug fix, in a file this PR adds nine lines to. An earlier revision of this branch did extract the insert into a helper; it was removed in review precisely because, once the fix is (bool) $wpdb->insert( … ), the helper is a wrapper around $wpdb with nothing of its own to assert. Re-adding it to satisfy a test would be testing the mock.

Both are reasonable things to want. Happy to open tickets for them if a committer agrees they're worth tracking.

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