On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Todd Rinaldo <to...@cpanel.net> wrote: > 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?
It's sort of a "long term beta" now. All the "beta" reports go into the main www.cpantesters.org database. > 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. Ok. I'll see if there's a way to detect that and fail gracefully. For what it's worth, you should never be smoke testing as root on any machine you care about. (Testing means running arbitrary code uploaded by someone you don't know -- not a good idea to do with root privileges) > 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..."; A new user should *NOT* use the 1.0 system as it will be retired at the end of August. New users should try 2.0 and report back here (as you've done) with any issues so we can address them. -- David
