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 -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
