On 01/20/2009 12:07 AM, David Westbrook wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, imacat <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2. Sorry I posted your mail on the list. I do not see any reason why
>> this mail is off-list.
>
> Your first reply was directly to me, and not to the list (so the list
> is probably missing some context here), which is why i continued it
> off-list, assuming it was intentional.
Oh... sorry. I do not know the cpan-testers-discuss list does not
set the Reply-to: header, and I did not check it. Maybe I shall write
to the list manager some other time.
> Proposition:
> + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited
> just to distributions that have any version installed on the system
> (instead of all of CPAN).
I still do not see at all.
1. How many smokers have installed my module? Only one, that is,
I. How many smokers have installed Mac::iTune? No one.
2. With this new system you suggested, I will only get my own
reports, which is nearly useless. And other authors will get no reports
at all.
3. I will stop running smoke tests, since when I upgrade the
modules weekly, the reports will be sent anyway. If I will not be
sending reports other than the above, running smoke tests is a
duplicated work and CPU waste which could be saved. In fact, currently
the only modules I do not need to run smoke tests are those that I did
not installed.
4. Nobody gets reports except for those popular modules like LWP,
etc.. Also, nobody is running smoke tests anymore.
5. If nobody is running smoke tests, and nobody is receiving smoke
test reports except LWP, how does this CPAN testers system work?
So, why are you thinking that this will increase the amount of
reports, but not demolish the whole CPAN testers system?
If that is not what you mean, then I have a serious English problem.
Either I misunderstand your proposition, or I misunderstand your
expected result. In either way, I may have to restart my English class.
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