Ricardo Signes <perl.test...@rjbs.manxome.org> writes:
> Can we all agree that there's no reason at this date to be smoking with 5.13
> or
> 5.15?
>
> I love reports from older perls, and from recent 5.17s. Reports from 5.13 and
> 5.15 strike me as utterly pointless. I'm still getting them, though, and
> being
> told by a smoker that it's my problem to deal with.
>
> I would appreciate some input from the rest of the list on whether I am wrong
> to think that these reports are a waste of the time of everyone involved and
> affected.
+1
One might argue the ultimate goal of cpantesters is to find bugs. I'd
say yes, but the bugs should be relevant. Bugs in very old and
irrelevant combinations are *usually* noise that makes useful work
harder for everybody involved.
Occasionally it happens on my smokers too, that I send a report for
something that is a bit outdated. This usually happens while I'm
bisecting. But to prevent it from happening too often I have a
distroprefs file (recommended for all CPAN.pm based smokers):
match:
perlconfig:
version: '^5\.(7|9|11|13|15)\.'
cpanconfig:
test_report: 0
Frankly I confess I had only the regexp for up to 11 and have added the
13 and 15 right now:)
--
andreas
