Plane Tickets That Match Git Branches (PORT-N)
Orphan tickets and orphan branches are the same failure mode: work happens, but nobody can trace why. My portfolio uses PORT-N — a Plane ticket prefix that matches every git branch, commit, and pull request. The Woodpecker article covers what the pipeline does; this one covers who asked for it and how work stays linked.
Non-trivial work starts with a Plane ticket PORT-N. The branch is feature/PORT-N-short-description. Commits prefix PORT-N: description. Pull requests use [PORT-N] Summary in the title and fixes PORT-N in the body.
Woodpecker runs install, lint, build, and QA on every push and PR. On main, it deploys to production. The ticket number in the branch name is the thread that connects planning to shipping.