link to the discussion thread from whatsnew

Include the link to the discussion in the what's new text per @malemberg's comment on. https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/109767

(i'll follow up with a PR to main to include this edit there as well)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index b55c57fb3406c0343198edb370cdd35350129b6a..f5f39c7ab9c42f3c3f561e17484a4e1f1cd76756 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -1071,7 +1071,9 @@ Deprecated
   with the POSIX platform when doing so. Even if such code *appeared* to work.
   We added the warning to to raise awareness as issues encounted by code doing
   this are becoming more frequent. See the :func:`os.fork` documentation for
-  more details.
+  more details along with `this discussion on fork being incompatible with threads
+  <https://discuss.python.org/t/33555>`_ for *why* we're now surfacing this
+  longstanding platform compatibility problem to developers.
 
   When this warning appears due to usage of :mod:`multiprocessing` or
   :mod:`concurrent.futures` the fix is to use a different