Dear fellow testers, please don't set environment variables that could lead to extraordinary testing conditions. Especially vulnerable environment variables are AUTHOR_TESTING, PERL_TEST_CRITIC, PERL_TEST_POD.
Many software writers seem to use these variables to scratch their own, private itch during testing. They enable tests that only work under certain conditions or will become regular tests at some point in time later or are insecure to run elsewhere and what not. The results of such tests usually cannot be interpreted without being the author and they are of no interest to us, the rest of the world. When cpantesters use these variables they are pretending that the only the author is testing privately and the world isn't looking. But cpantesters is about the world IS looking. Please remove these environment variables from your testbed now. Thank you, -- andreas
