[Reposted from http://www.dagolden.com]
We’ve hit a major milestone. The CT2.0 closed beta test has begun.
About half a dozen CPAN Testers have volunteered to start submitting
reports to a CT2.0 beta site. In only a few days of beta testing, it
has received over 3000 reports from perls on several major operating
systems and architectures.
Some of the immediate discoveries and improvements include:
* Chris Williams released a new version of CPANPLUS to provide an
additional data field needed for CT2.0.
* I revised the Metabase::Fact distribution to avoid some test
bugs in bleadperl and downgrade several prereqs so it can be used on
Perls back to 5.006.
* I released a couple new versions of Test::Reporter. 1.55 was a
patch from Dan Collins to improve how reports are saved/loaded for
testers that save files to disk, move them to another machine and then
upload. 1.56 attempts to fix line-ending issues moving report files
between Windows and Unix (reported by Serguei Trouchelle)
* I released a new version of Metabase::Client::Simple with
Net::SSL as a prerequisite. This may be a temporary fix (and it makes
it not so “simple”), but for now it helps beta testers avoid annoying
and hard-to-diagnose errors from LWP
I want to particularly thank all the intrepid CT2.0 beta test
volunteers: Andreas Koenig, Apocalypse, Dan Collins, MW487, Nigel
Horne, Serguei Trouchelle, and Shlomi Fish. While I’m sure they might
feel more like crash-test dummies, I greatly appreciate the time they
are taking and the excellent feedback they’ve been giving. Keep up the
great work!
After another week or so of shakedown, I hope to open the beta test to
anyone interested in participating.
