On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:00:40PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > It's good that there are dedicated people who setup smoke testing but > I think what we would need is more diversity both for new and old modules. > > For each platform/version (e.g. Netbsd 3.1) > report with its default perl
This requires the tester to have the infrastructure in place to clean up afterwards - probably by running in a VM (which itself limits testing to NetBSD only on platforms which support VMs - so no NetBSD on Alpha, for example) and blowing the whole machine away and replacing it with a clean one periodically. I believe some people are already doing this. > report with the latest 5.10.x, 5.8.x, 5.6.x and maybe 5.005 I test with 5.10.0, 5.8.8 and 5.6.2 on Linux, but not elsewhere. I assume that it's sufficient to cover each version of perl once, and each platform once, so on other platforms I just test with 5.10.0 (or 5.8.8 on Irix, cos I had trouble building 5.10.0). > I'd like to see people also test modules that were uploaded long time ago. > (the latest version of them) and not only the recent uploads. I did this some time ago and have tested everything uploaded since (except those that I've deliberately excluded from testing for various reasons). It annoyed a fair number of people, partly because my algorithm for figuring out what's the most recent was a bit stupid and so if a module changed maintainer it tested both USERFOO/Some-Module-1.0 and USERBAR/Some-Module-3.7. Also, while I was doing this on several platforms, I stopped them all as soon as one reached the end. Mostly because it was taking a lot of my time. I believe that brian d foy has recently been doing some backpan archaeology, so it might be worth someone else doing this at some point once he's written some nice tools. > If you want to give a service to those who don't want to > upgrade then try to figure out what is the newest version of a module > that still works on your platform os. These go some way towards that: http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=CGI-Upload%201.11;maxver=1 http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=CGI-Upload%201.11 which is linked as "Perl/Platform Version Matrix" from search.cpan.org. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" You don't need to spam good porn
