On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:28 AM, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Ben Tilly <[email protected]> wrote: >> See >> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ad9d0e30-b03f-11df-9f7c-b27181b802a8 >> >> 5.13.4 is experimental. My hasn't been touched this year and succeeds >> on perl 5.6 through 5.12 inclusive. Therefore failures on 5.13.4 are >> more likely to be a bug in that development release of Perl than a bug >> in the module. So the module doesn't need fixing, and I don't need to >> hear about any problems. > > That's not always the case. As perl internals change or features are > deprecated in development releases of Perl, modules that rely on > undocumented features (or the presence or absence of warnings) may > break. Sub::Name is a great example of this. It relied on > undocumented internals that broke in 5.13.3 due to a bug fix, which > subsequently broke Moose and a lot of other things that depended on > it. Having test reports was invaluable for detecting and diagnosing > the issue (and in getting a patch sent upstream to the maintainer).
I understand that. But in such situations, I'm happy with waiting until an interested person gets involved, or a release candidate happens. > I understand that you, personally, may not be interested in test > results on development Perls, and you can choose whether or not to > receive notifications of reports by email at > https://prefs.cpantesters.org/ That was truly painful. I managed to login, but following the link to see my default filter settings took about 10 minutes. But eventually I did manage to load https://prefs.cpantesters.org/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?act=author-default and see my settings. > I believe the default is not to notify for development releases of > perl, so if that isn't the case, please let us know so Barbie can > investigate. That is not the case for me, and I guarantee that I've never changed my settings. The default appears to be to notify me for all unpatched versions of Perl, and all platforms. And there is no easy option to not be notified for development releases of Perl.
