I support making bug URL or Bug(~) optional. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've been repeatedly finding it that bug numbers in TestExpectations don't > lead to bugs that are helpful in the context of the specific test. Often > the bug doesn't have any information beyond what's already in the > expectation (that the test is skipped of failing, without a posted diff or > any other useful detail). Other times, the linked bug is one that the > person was working on at the time of changing expectations, so the bug link > is more like "see related bug XXXX, and try to figure out how exactly it's > related", not "this failure is tracked by XXXX". Free form comments worked > great for both cases in Skipped files. > > It appears that the rigid format that requires putting a bug URL is > causing more harm than good in practice. I suggest making the URL optional. > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev >
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