[rfc][icedtea-web] Bug annotation

[Omair Majid]

On 04/25/2012 11:03 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Hi all!
> 4/5 of  browser testing framework. This one is not related to testing of
> applets in browsers, but is extension to testing framework as a complex.
> I got inspired by jtreg and by Pavel and our documentaries  who are
> always annoyed when tracking some bug in icedtea-web.
> 
> This was originally purposed by me in  Extending jnlp reproducers for
> html+applet reproducers in March [1]:
> 
> *@Bug* annotation  - can handle IDs of bugs or urls to web which
> contains more info about "why this
> reproducer or unit test was added", are *nicely* propagated also to html
> report (see attached
> report.zip). Name convention is as we are used to from NEWS files."

Just a suggestion for possible improvement. Perhaps it would be nice to
separate the bug ids from discussion threads. How about something like
this instead:

@Bug(ids={"PR42"},discussion={"http://some/url/to/discussion"}) ?

Cheers,
Omair