Perl > cpan-testers-discuss > January 2008

We periodically have authors complain that they don't want any reports or don't want certain modules tested. I think I've seen that various smoke testers maintain their own custom skip logic. Would ...

As I've been pondering what I want from CPAN::Reporter's history log for a smoke server, I've started to consider changing the log structure yet again. (The last change was to add perl version to the ...

hello, i have a failing test that i don't understand: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/01/msg935368.html the offending line is: [ERROR] [Tue Jan 8 16:33:10 2008] MAKE failed: cp ...

I've been reviewing some of the ways reports are produced within YACSmoke, or specifically within CPANPLUS. As the reporting mechanism for test reports should pretty much be the same, regardless of ...

Hello, everyone. I've just added a new 'command_timeout' advanced config option to CPAN::Reporter. This works like CPAN's 'inactivity_timeout' -- it kills anything run through CPAN::Reporter's ...

[Breaking this out into a separate subject] I may be throwing you off when I use the term "failing prerequisites" -- I mean that prerequisites aren't satisfied, not that they get a FAIL grade. ...

There are a few records in the database for which I can't figger out what OS was used from the 'platform' field. Can anyone identify these? IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64 IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi ...

(Mac? I wish.) I have Ubuntu at home and It's a little more complicated than "just works" but I installed VirtualBox packages from their site and that "just works". I have a Damn Small Linux (DSL) ...

An author emailed me about some test results I'd sent him, saying that he would prefer to have them submitted to RT instead of sent to him by email. Obviously that's not practical right now, but it's ...

Hi! I've got a few reports due to the test plan not matching the number of tests run, eg: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/01/msg973035.html However, I can't track down where ...

Idea stolen from brian d foy[1], data stolen from perl.grango.org: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SmAgULsOtha6g7GcD5KnL2- :) [1] http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/30/2340244 ...

My apologies for sending out some erroneous failure reports for the following distributions: * NetAddr-IP * Mail-DeliveryStatus-BounceParser * Net-DNS-ToolKit * File-Assets this was, as you will no ...

Is there any way to get the log of "perl Makefile.PL" included in "NA" reports? I have a module, Memcached::libmemcached, that bundles the source code to a C library, libmemcached. The "perl ...

Thanks to some rapid CPAN Testers feedback from Bob Walker (and then Andreas), I've realized there was a permissions issue on a file that was causing 1.07_02 to fail tests from the tarball, but not ...

Several big additions in this version: - Added have_tested() function to CPAN::Reporter::History; provide ability to search the CPAN::Reporter history file - Bug fix: PL files that warned "OS ...

I know there's quite a cross-over between perl-qa and cpan-testers, but in case anyone missed this ... -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Never attribute to malice ...