On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:13 AM, imacat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/20/2009 12:07 AM, David Westbrook wrote:
>> 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? > This Safer CPAN Tester module could be installed by people like me who do don't do smoke testing at all (or by you but on your real development environment) thus it has the potential to increase the number of reports in more natural environments. One of my main issues with the tons of reports the main smokers send - despite the fact that I am totally thankful for them - that those reports are generated in a lab environment and their sheer number hides the few reports that come from real setups. Point: while I am happy to see my modules tested on all version of 5.8.x on NetBSD it would be more important to get the reports from people using the *default perl* of Red Hat 17.0 and Enterprise SuSE 38.7 or whatever version numbers they have. Those environments are usually more difficult and much more broken (!) than those of the smokers. This Safer smoker has the potential to help increasing this number. Gabor
