I've been in discussions with Robert at the Perl NOC. CPAN Testers have cracked 10 reports a minute (a rate of about 400,000 reports per month), which is threatening to overwhelm the Perl NOC's email system.
If we can throttle our rate down significantly, Robert is willing to give us until March 1, 2010 to launch CPAN Testers 2.0 and shut down email transport and the NNTP backing store. If not, we'll be cut off sooner. So we now have a deadline -- which we didn't have before -- and we need to get focused on finishing up CPAN Testers 2.0. I'm about done with my work on blead and can refocus on it I'll probably put together a mini project plan and be requesting volunteers for pieces of work to help get it done. In the meantime, please slow down testing -- put sleep loops in the smoker code or something. Whatever you have to do -- we need to get back down to the 100,000 reports/month level (or further) to take some pressure off the NOC. On the positive side -- we've been wonderfully successful attracting new participants and testing new platforms, so kudos. But now we need to make this sucker scale better. -- David
