[Apocalpyse reminded me that not everyone follows my blog or one of
the aggregators like Iron Man or Planet Perl. So, here is a repost of
my latest update at
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/708/cpan-testers-2-0-end-february-update-and-next-steps/]
It’s never great to post an “end-February” report a week into March,
but that’s how things are going lately. I’ve been busy with family and
work obligations that have meant less CT2.0 hacking. I’m sorry this is
coming late, but I hope I will give anyone interested a sense of where
things stand.
I should note that the original deadline for finishing CT2.0 was March
1 and clearly we’re not there yet. I’ve discussed the situation with
Robert and Ask at the Perl NOC, and they’ve been willing to extend the
deadline for cutting off CT1.0 for a while longer. Thank you, Robert
and Ask, for your understanding!
Progress in the last couple weeks:
* I did some alpha testing of the CT2.0 Metabase hosted on Amazon.
Based on that, I revised yet again (sigh) the user
registration/credentials approach to minimize the hassle for old and
new registrants.
* Florian Ragwitz wrote a Catalyst app to help distribute new
credentials files to legacy CT1.0 users. I haven’t deployed it yet
(since I now need to regenerate all the credentials), but greatly
appreciate his quick turnaround.
* I implemented the Metabase search capabilities that Barbie will
need to update the CPAN Testers statistics database. This will be
based on the excellent SQL::Abstract approach to WHERE clause
construction.
* I wrote several helper modules to simplify configuration of a
CPAN Testers metabase in preparation for deployment. The first of
these has already been uploaded to CPAN: Net::Amazon::Config
* I finalized the “version 0″ API for the Metabase web service and
revised the interface between the Catalyst app and the Metabase to
reflect the latest changes to the library.
In the last several weeks, members the #catalyst and #moose IRC
channels were very, very helpful and patiently answered my many stupid
questions. Thank you in particular to confound, perigrin, rafl, rjbs,
stevan and t0m.
Coming up:
* Deploy all my new code onto the server for “beta” testing
* Release all the code to CPAN that people will need to configure
their clients for beta testing
* Regenerate user profiles and deploy rafl’s app to distribute
them to legacy users
* Whip the server into production shape (e.g. proper boot scripts
to auto-start the CT2.0 apps on restart)
* Get back to work on legacy report migration
It’s at the point now where I suspect the “hard thinking” part is
pretty much done and it’s a lot of grotty but straightforward tasks to
go. Hopefully, beta testing won’t reveal any major issues and the end
of March update will be focused on planning on orderly transition from
CT1.0 to CT2.0.
