Mark J. Nelson writes:
> The main advantage to keeping a registry of systems: tools like webrev 
> or comment checkers could be configurable to list and prioritize the 
> valid backends.  This would also make it easier to mix references in 
> webrevs and changeset comments, to reference fixes in upstream systems, 
> and to evolve policies and best practicies about embedding references in 
> changeset comments.

This sounds like a great idea.

> Thoughts?
> 
> What other information should be tracked?

It's possible that some tools might need a separate link for editing,
and yet another for programmatic (e.g., XML) output, but what you have
looks like a good start to me.

> Where should this go?  (I think in a repository underneath the tools 
> community, possibly by itself?)

A simple text file delivered with SUNWonbld sounds like a start.
/opt/onbld/etc/comment.reg?

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