Dear CPAN Testers, You may or may not realize that Barbie has done a tremendous amount of work over the years to reconcile email addresses to individual testers.
As we move to CT 2.0, every testers will have a "Metabase profile" -- a JSON file containing identify information and a shared secret -- that will be used instead of email addresses to identify testers. (You will want to use the same profile file on every machine you test from.) To be as consistent with the "zero-registration" approach of CPAN Testers historically, anyone can just generate a Metabase profile and start testing and the infrastructure will "auto-register" the profile (and secret). However, to make it easier for me to connect legacy reports to your new CT 2.0 profile, I have pre-generated profile files for everyone submitting reports (at least as of several months ago) that I can link to all the old emails that were used in testing. Florian Ragwitz then graciously wrote a quick Catalyst app to serve up these pre-generated profiles. (Thank you, Florian!) If you do not already have your CT 2.0 profile file from the beta test, please go to http://metabase.cpantesters.org/claimid/ and enter an email address that you use for CPAN Testers (and that can receive email). Your profile file will be emailed to you. Then follow instructions on wiki.cpantesters.org for how to install and use it. You may, of course, generate new profiles for any particular need you have, but there is no plan as of yet to allow people to easily merge merge profiles for the purposes of the CPAN Testers statistics (e.g. the Leaderboard). If you have trouble getting your profile, please check your spam traps for email from "Metabase Admin" <metabase-ad...@cpantesters.org>. If you still have trouble, please email this list (or me directly) with details. Thank you, David
