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Tuesday September 25, 2007
10:35 AM
cpan testers is /dev/null?
By chance I looked at the tester reports for overload::eval and discovered that its never worked for anyone else. I never got a note about it failing or anything.
How's an author supposed to get notified that stuff is broken? I thought the new cpan test reporting stuff was supposed to make sure I'd get cc-ed on failures. Apparently it doesn't. There's nothing that looks helpful on cpantesters.perl.org either.
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Works for me (Score:2)
I also look at the RSS feed for my PAUSE ID too, though.
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*It* is decentralized (Score:1)
FYI, there is no centralized "it" to be /dev/null. Individual testers may configure their CPAN Tester client to CC authors or not.
-- David
Your email? Or something else? (Score:1)
My first thought is that there could be something wrong with emailing to your PAUSE ID at cpan.org. Or something filtering emails on their way to you. But the overall number of reports on cpan testers is pretty low.
With the addition of the 5.9 dependency, I'm surprised there aren't any N/A results -- which would be the correct report to see on CPAN Testers for older Perls. Note that N/A reports are now not sent to authors by CPAN::Reporter, and possibly not by CPANPLUS/YACSmoke either. So those should
How many smokers email reports? (Score:1)
surprised to see half of the reports on cpantesters for me
were failures.
That said, I have ambivalent feelings about getting more
FAIL reports in my mailbox.
But, seriously, smokers, Good Job!
Speaking for CPANPLUS (Score:1)
CPANPLUS pulls the .yml file from cpantesters.perl.org [perl.org]to determine if a FAIL has already been reported or not. If a FAIL already has, it skips sending the cc'd email to the module author.