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The future of Test::Distribution

Written by Sags and posted by brian_d_foy on 2007.10.25 14:00   

Test::Distribution is probably the most widely used of all the Perl modules that I've developed. It's certainly the only one that I know of that has been mentioned in an O'Reilly book.

Over the last couple of years (mainly ever since my wife and I moved out of the parents and gained the responsibility of maintaining our own household) I haven't been able to give it the attention it needed. I'm hoping that will change over the next few years, but I've hoped that several times in the past too...

I'm interested in people's views on what I should do with T::D. Some ideas:

• Just pick off where I left off. Start going through the rt bugs and look to adding support for Module::Build in particular
• Deprecate the module in favour of _____
• Try and merge with the Kwailitie/CPANTS etc. tools out there which attack a similar domain but from a different angle
• Spend my time on a different project

  It'd be really good to hear from people that still use Test::Distribution and would appreciate me coming out from hibernation.

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• More features (Score:1)

  by srezic (8057) on 2007.10.25 16:30 (#58598)
  ( Last Journal: 2007.10.28 9:09 )

  More checks I can think of, especially when preparing a distribution for CPAN upload:

  • check if the author has the namespace permissions on all modules
  • check if all module versions are properly incremented, if necessary

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  • Re:More features by Sags (Score:1) 2007.10.28 10:01
• Open up the development (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735) on 2007.10.25 19:14 (#58599)
  ( http://ali.as/ | Last Journal: 2007.10.24 5:12 )

  Let go of the baby...
  
  Get it into a publically-facing repository, give commit rights to anyone that wants it.
  
  I notice Test::Distribution is not reliable dependency, it has a ton of CPAN Testers failures. The first step is probably to make it safe to depend on.

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  • Re:Open up the development by AndyArmstrong (Score:1) 2007.10.26 5:04
  • Re:Open up the development by Sags (Score:1) 2007.10.28 9:59
    • Re:Open up the development by Sags (Score:1) 2007.10.28 14:24
  • Re:Open up the development by Sags (Score:1) 2007.10.28 15:58
• You developed Test::Distribution? (Score:1)

  by hanekomu (8123) on 2007.10.26 6:42 (#58606)
  ( http://hanekomu.vox.com/ | Last Journal: 2007.10.23 14:50 )

  Sorry, I'm confused. Test::Distribution was originally created by me and is now maintained by Sagar R. Shah, see its page on search.cpan.org [cpan.org]. Its "Changes" file also mentions you only because I got the idea for the module from one of your posts on use.perl.org in 2002.

  Am I missing something?

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  • Re:You developed Test::Distribution? by hanekomu (Score:1) 2007.10.26 7:09
• The future of Test::Distribution (Score:1)

  by kid51 (5328) on 2007.10.26 12:08 (#58615)
  ( Last Journal: 2007.07.01 13:05 )

  If you want to put it up for adoption, post on perl.module-authors. I've adopted a couple of other people's modules. I also spoke on the topic of adoption of CPAN modules at YAPC::NA::2006 in Chicago, so I can offer tips to potential adoptive parent(s).

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  • Re: The future of Test::Distribution by Sags (Score:1) 2007.10.28 10:06