Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
In addition to getting CPANPLUS fixed, I feel there is the
issue of what to do about such fallacious reports in the
CPAN Testers database. Currently, there is no functionality
for deleting such reports.
This issue also has frustrated me for some time, but I don't think that
we should be considering deleting reports. Reports are just facts --
they have no value basis. Yes, people may make judgments about the
robustness of a module based on pass/fail percentages, but I don't think
we should alter the raw data.
I'd rather see the ability for test reports to be annotated (e.g. by the
author), or I'd like to see another site that summarizes the raw data
and can filter down to a more reliable set of statistics.
As such, I would like to propose that the following
compromise be adopted: If a newer CPAN Testers report is
received that matches all of the following with respect to
an existing report:
CPAN Tester (i.e., email address)
Module
Module version
Machine architecture
Perl version
then the newer report should overwrite/mask the older
report in such a way that the older report is no longer
displayed on the module's CPAN Testers results page.
Again, I don't think overwriting is a good idea. What if some
dependency module was changed and caused the module to fail/succeed
differently than before? That's important to know. Different results
from the same tester is *valuable* data, not erroneous.
Regards,
David Golden
