Improve discourse link in news fragment

Author: abravalheri

docs/conf.py

@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@
                 pattern=r'pypa/(?P<commit_repo>[\-\.\w]+)@(?P<commit_number>[\da-f]+)',
                 url='{GH}/pypa/{commit_repo}/commit/{commit_number}',
             ),
+            dict(
+                pattern=r'Discourse thread (?P<thread_number>\d+)',
+                url='https://discuss.python.org/t/{thread_number}',
+            ),
         ],
     ),
 }
@@ -113,7 +117,6 @@
     'user': (f'{github_url}%s', '@%s'),
     'pypi': ('https://pypi.org/project/%s', '%s'),
     'wiki': ('https://wikipedia.org/wiki/%s', '%s'),
-    'discourse': ('https://discuss.python.org/t/%s', '%s'),
 }
 extensions += ['sphinx.ext.extlinks']
 

newsfragments/4965.feature.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Incorporated ``wheel.macosx_libfile`` as a private module in the ``setuptools`` project.
-The discussion leading to this approach can be found in #4935 and :discourse:`87509`.
+The discussion leading to this approach can be found in #4935 and in the Discourse thread 87509.
 Third party software interested in using this module are encouraged to interact
-in the discourse thread and propose alternatives (e.g. extracting this module
+in the Discourse thread and propose alternatives (e.g. extracting this module
 in its own separated project).