Op 11 nov. 2012 17:27 schreef "Steffen Schwigon" <s...@renormalist.net> het volgende:
> A matrix like > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Data-DPath-0.47 > potentially covers 500 combinations. > > And they are only comprehensible because they are in 2 dimensions. > > What you want adds new dimensions, a hypercube of the test matrix. > > That's where noise starts. I understand that it is not needed to see all install failures for all possible permutations of module versions. I think it IS very good information to see if your module fails to install because of the latest versions of CPAN modules are giving issues. So if an upstream module gives test failures on some platforms, this can be very good info for a module author. One of the possibilities would then be to fix the upstream module, or of course you can choose to see if you can do without the dependency, or select an alternate one. The same for when one of the upstream modules start changing and introduce failures in the chain. As a downstream module author, this might be very interesting news, but in the current situation you would not see this. For instance about six weeks ago, the Variable::Magic module started to give test failures. As a result, DBIx::Class was not installable from CPAN. As a DBIx::Class author or if you're interested in the module, this would be very good information I think. <rant>Of course, for this to work, it test reports should be visible at all in the first place! The XML::Compile::WSS module last visible tests are from 1.01. http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/X/XML-Compile-WSS.html#XML-Compile-WSS-1.01 - 1.02 or later, released on October 22nd, does not have any visble test reports! This is not because they have not been submitted, but because they are not visible on the cpan-testers website. According to the CPAN testers leaderboard, no tests in November have been submitted at all. I reported this earlier in September; I (and more people) offered help before. I run a smoker on a VPS for which I pay money. At this time it does not seem to be a wise investment. At the moment I think there are only a couple of options: either you (dagolden and barbie) fix the cpan-testers website soon(ish) and yes I do understand you are busy, or you allow other people to help fix the issue maybe even by using the alternative put in place by Slaven, or people like me will start losing interest and turn off their smokers. I think this is very bad for the project.</rant> -- Mike
