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Bug tracking for the CPAN

posted by pudge on 2001.11.07 14:59   

Jesse writes "I'm pleased to announce the public beta of rt.cpan.org, a public bug tracking system for every distribution in the CPAN. Anybody can use the public interface to look at current and past bugs in distributions and to report new bugs.

Over the next couple weeks, I'd like the community to put the system through its paces, so we can work out the kinks before we invite the masses to start reporting bugs.

Authors can sign in with their PAUSE credentials to work with and resolve bugs. If you don't have a PAUSE account or if RT's concept of your list of distributions looks wrong, send mail to jesse+cpan@bestpractical.com and I'll take care of it.

In addition to the web interface, anyone can report a bug in a distribution by sending mail to bug-distname@rt.cpan.org (ex: bug-dbix-searchbuilder@rt.cpan.org)."

Thanks, Jesse. I've heard a lot of good things about RT, and this is another great service that the Perl community can offer to developers.

• VERY nice

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  by andypetdance.com (815) on 2001.11.07 17:22 (#1832)
  ( http://www.petdance.com/ )

  Very nice. I'm glad to see such a thing. I'll have to dump my to-do list for MARC::Record into there.
  
  Thanks much...

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• We at CPAN

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  by hfb (74) on 2001.11.07 17:52 (#1833)
  ( Last Journal: 2002.02.25 17:47 )

  Thank you :) Not only for seeing a problem to be solved, but for coming through with an attractive and useful solution. I'll update the CPAN FAQ to indicate users should open bugs through rt.cpan.org as well as encourage authors to use it as well. The testers should find this handy too when reporting bugs to authors.

  You and Dave Cross are my heros of the "Just STFU and do it" revolution :) Thanks and thanks and thanks!

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• auto bug reports from cpantest

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  by hossman (2110) on 2001.11.07 19:09 (#1835)

  What would really be sweet is if the cpantest script automatically CCed bug-distname@rt.cpan.org if the test failed.

  (And if each package page on search.cpan.org & testers.cpan.org were hyperlinked to the corrisponding buglist on rt.cpan.org ... sweeeeeeet!!)

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  • Re:auto bug reports from cpantest by jns (Score:2) 2001.11.08 5:36
• Very nice

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  by kwilliams (1467) on 2001.11.08 1:52 (#1838)

  Ditto to the kudos. I think this will really help communication. Thanks Jesse.

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• It should be optional

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  by gbarr (68) on 2001.11.09 14:59 (#1856)
  ( Last Journal: 2004.11.06 18:03 )

  While I tagree that this is a good idea. The appearance of an authers distributions should be optional by the author.
  

  
  I remember in the early days of cpan-testers there were a lot of complaints from authers that bug reports were put in such a public place before they had a chance to address them.

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  • Re:It should be optional by ziggy (Score:3) 2001.11.09 15:24
    • Re:It should be optional by gbarr (Score:1) 2001.11.09 23:35
  • Re:It should be optional by hfb (Score:3) 2001.11.09 17:55