Yesterday I released my "make dist" replacement, Dist::Zilla. Later, I went to http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Dist-Zilla.html and saw the test reports for it. I was pretty surprised to see results for pre-1.00 dists. I guess I'd installed it on some of my workstations with CPAN::Reporter installed (thanks David!) and the test report was sent in. Here's one:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/06/msg1622841.html So, a report sent in several months before the dist was released was indexed and stored. This seems potentially slightly troublesome, as people may do the same thing I did, but with code they don't mean to divulge the existence of, or may otherwise screw up reports just enough to be useless. Anyway, I'm mostly reporting this because it's weird and maybe unintended. I could also believe if they're accepted on purpose to avoid races -- although four months is quite a race. -- rjbs
