title: Is it possible to send a reason for Jasmine 2 specs skipped with xit or pending()?
body: <p>When we find a bug with one of our Protractor Jasmine2 specs, we usually want to skip the test until the bug has been resolved.  </p>
  
  <p>I know how to do this with <code>xit</code> or <code>pending()</code>, and JasmineReporters TerminalReporter is doing a nice job of color highlighting and listing pending specs.</p>
  
  <p>However, the pending tests always report <code>No reason given</code>, which implies it is possible to give a reason for the skipped test.  </p>
  
  <p>I currently comment the spec with an issue number, but it would be really nice to report the reason the test was disabled and the issue number. </p>
  
  <p>UPDATE</p>
  
  <p>As requested, adding example terminal output ( fdescribe on an example, so reporting most of the suite disabled ):</p>
  
  <p>Versions:
  Protractor 2.1.0  and Jasmine 2.3.1</p>
  
  <p>Using <code>xit</code> </p>
  
  <pre><code> Skipped
  *      will display the platform if available ...
  ...
  SUCCESS: 85 specs, 0 failures, 1 skipped, 72 disabled in 34.734s.
  Pending:
  
  1) will display the platform if available
  No reason given
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Using <code>pending()</code></p>
  
  <p>This appears to have started marking it failed, probably related to <a href="https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/1852" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/1852</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>Failures:
  1) will display the platform if available
  Message:
  Failed: =&gt; marked Pending
  Stack:
  Error: Failed: =&gt; marked Pending
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATED: Related feature requests and issues for this functionality</strong></p>
  
  <p>There is currently a feature request to support pending(message) outstanding for Protractor/jasminewd if you want to follow progress :</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/angular/jasminewd/issues/32" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/angular/jasminewd/issues/32</a> <a href="https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/2454" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/2454</a></p>