You already have all the good reasons! If someone needs more reasons than this, that person needs to switch to another language where they can pay $$ for support.
What I 'd really like to see is the possibility to force a user to send feedback. My module is not free, it costs a report when it is installed. That is still a fair price. Nadim. On Tuesday 09 September 2008 17.59.26 Gabor Szabo wrote: > As I mentioned earlier I think one of the improvements > CPAN Testers need is diversity. That is, to get more people > to send in reports from various platforms. > > So I wonder besides the warm feeling of giving back to the community > how else could we get more people to send reports? > I am not talking about more smokers, I am talking about people installing > CPAN::Reporter and sending reports whenever they try to install a module. > > > One thing I keep telling people is that if they want to install a module > and it fails, it is great, that without any extra work on their part, they > have already sent a report to the author (even if that is going to be via a > central server) so next time they want to install the module it might have > been fixed already. (I know I am bit optimistic with this :-) > > So I am looking for other reasons for someone to send these reports. > > We might also provide an interface for the testers to see all kinds of > statistics based on the reports they sent in. > E.g. what kind of modules have they installed, when, which platform. > Success/failure etc. > > We can go further and allow them to subscribe to a service to alert them > when a new version of one of these modules comes out. Especially if > the new version changes the failure/success status of the module. > > What else is there for an arbitrary Perl user to get her start sending > reports? > > Gabor
