It seems to me rather poor that readers of our CHANGES file have to manually 
follow references to revision numbers and issue numbers. Examples:
[[[
  - Server-side bugfixes:
    * svnadmin dump shouldn't canonicalize svn:date (issue #4767)
    * 'svnadmin verify --keep-going --quiet' shows an error summary (r1837790)
]]]

I have shortcuts defined in my browser for going to a revision or an issue by 
number, but must users don't, so I feel it is pretty unfriendly to them.

As the file format is pretty regular, would anyone care to contemplate 
post-processing it into HTML with the revision numbers and issue numbers as 
hyperlinks?

I would suggest keeping the current file format as the original and posting the 
processed version somewhere. A static link in the original (text file) could 
point to the canonical URL of the HTML version. Just a trunk version would be 
sufficient initially, updated at least at every release and preferably more 
often.

-- 
- Julian

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