Hi there,
This is not the first time I am confronted to a git log (or old svn log) message that only refers to a ticket number.
Which does not help to understand why a fix was written.
Do we have somewhere a readonly dump of the old issue tracker ?
It's not online as TRAC instance anymore (even read-only) as it contains tons and tons of spam tickets/links. But zgrep should work on it.
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Unfortunately, this gives access only to
Old PLIPS and open tickets from Trac, packed as tar.gz
In the case of log messages, it usually is a closed ticket 
Have we kept a dump of the Trac database so that it would be possible to extract the closed tickets as well ? (I'd be happy to make that work if needed)
best shot would be @mauritsvanrees, I think. At least he also worked on the tarball. However, I'm not 100% sure there was even DB access at that point, so it might have been httrack-ed...
The trac instance did get regularly indexed by the Wayback machine, but that's not a scalable solution. You might get lucky on an individual ticket number, though.
From what I see in my mail archive(mail to @svx and Paul on 31 July 2016) , I only made some improvements to the tarball that was already there, and Sven put the improved version online. (I checked, and it is indeed the version I improved, making the pages clickable when they point to other tickets, mostly.) So I guess the original was either made by Sven or Paul, or someone else in the AI team at the time.
@gotcha we've suffered from this in the past: trying to get the motivation of an implementation but no luck. Some related topics:
@svx In [EOL] dev.plone.org you say that dumps will be kept. Do we still have them ? Who should I ask ?