On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:56 AM, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Todd Rinaldo <to...@cpanel.net> wrote: >> I'm left with the following questions now that's all over and done with. >> 1. Are my reports going somewhere of value? They're not in the tail log. > > The tail log is on a 5 minute cron job. I see plenty from you now. E.g. Yeah. see below OSX root homedir bug I think.
>> 2. This told me how to setup reporting. It didn't tell me how to setup an >> automated smoker to test all new modules that come down the rss pipe. How do >> I do that? >> 2a. Stumbling around I found this page http://devel.cpantesters.org/#smoker. >> 2b. Many links are broken there. Some declare themselves deprecated when you >> search harder. poe-component-cpan-reporter for instance. > > Well, it's a wiki. Like most wikis, it's gets out of date and has to > be maintained. Now we know where to go Ok. I don't feel qualified to comment on what should and shouldn't be used. >> 3a. The page starts out talking about needing to choose between CPAN or >> CPANPLUS. It offers no optinion > > That is a philosophical debate beyond the scope of CPAN Testers. > Generally the answer is "whichever you would normally use". I have no problem with that. But I think it should be stated since to me my question was more about "Which tester tool should I choose?" >> 3b. Now it talks about upgrading and hints at some modules I need to install >> 3c. The page mentions some modules I should install (Couldn't this be a >> bundle?) > > That's on my todo list. The instructions were for beta testers, so > they already had the basics installed. Generally, at this point, > CPAN::Reporter and Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase are all that > are needed. (And the former only for CPAN. CPANPLUS doesn't need > it). Agreed. As evidenced by the page names. Which means we have no instructions for non-beta reporters. I'm also unclear if my beta reports will eventually propogate to the regular testers reports. Can you tell me? >> 4e. ok great it says I'm done and I can test. >> 4f. On my OSX 10.6, running via cpanp it falls over running as root. See >> below. Is there a bad link in the suggested config? > > I'm not sure why that's the case. And your subsequent reports seem to > have gone through. Did you do something different? Can you repeat > the failure? They fail as root. I think it's the old OSX issue with root's home dir. I created an unprivileged cpants account on my box and now it's working better. Thanks for the feedback . I'll see what I can do to amend the wiki later today. One thing I'm unclear on at this point. Is there any reason at this point a new user would use the 1.0 system directly? If so I can just phrase the instructions as "If you're a new user, do this..."; Thanks, Todd
