Reference Source hashes have changed, so links no longer work

[IanKemp]

1. Go to http://referencesource.microsoft.com/
2. Scroll down to the Link to a type/member text and click the link corresponding to that text: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/mscorlib/a.html#1f55292c3174123d
3. Notice that you are not directed to the appropriate line of code as you would expect. Instead, you are shown a page containing the text Don't use this page directly, pass #symbolId to get redirected.

This seems to have occurred because the file hashes (I assume) that are used for this functionality have changed. This affects Visual Studio extensions like Ref12.

[stephentoub]

cc: @richlander, @terrajobst

[karelz]

@preetikr can you please help?

[tarekgh]

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/16441

[tarekgh]

@preetikr @richlander why the repo https://github.com/Microsoft/referencesource not allowing creating issues there? can we change that so the related issues can be opened there?

[terrajobst]

Why does the repo https://github.com/Microsoft/referencesource not allow creating issues there?

We’ve disabled filing issues on referencesource because folks never reported infrastructure issues but bugs against .NET Framework, which we didn’t want, so we disabled it. I'm fine with re-enabling it, but we should add an issue template telling people that they should only file infrastructure issues with the contents of the repo or the site.

Not sure why the site regressed; maybe we just need to re-run the indexer? @preetikr, could you investigate?

[tarekgh]

@terrajobst would you enable creating issues in this repo?

[terrajobst]

I've submitted a PR to add the issue template. Once merged, I'll re-enable issues (microsoft/referencesource#27).

[tarekgh]

closing the issue here as I moved it to microsoft/referencesource#28