Update whatsnew instructions for GitHub (#98124)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index 903533261006656ff131a04f3463b9ce28e536ee..f8122ed1dc44f0b5beddbe78b5af3d98eec59b4e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@
    * Credit the author of a patch or bugfix.   Just the name is
    sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary.
 
-   * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment:
+   * It's helpful to add the issue number as a comment:
 
    XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket
    module.
-   (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.)
+   (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :gh:`12345`.)
 
    This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the VCS log when
    researching a change.