Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> writes:
> Hi Slaven,
>
> recently I received a number of failing test reports from you, for
> Plack-App-BeanstalkConsole-0.004:
>
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/27614552-c707-11e2-be51-ac14a65f1290
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/bc294a00-c706-11e2-b547-d1b9f05bb613
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/976876e6-c706-11e2-b45e-827567d01fb8
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/089d0ca6-c706-11e2-b644-eee7e73c5bf2
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6dd3a9b2-c707-11e2-87dd-f08dfdc235a3
>
> However, there should be *no testing at all* done for this distribution,
> (save any reports that are sent manually via cpanm-reporter), because the
> first line of Makefile.PL is:
>
> exit 0 if $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING};
>
> This is because this distribution requires the presence of a php
> executable, and also the Makefile.PL downloads a large file from github --
> so to respect github's servers, I'd rather this happen only when the module
> is actually going to be used.
>
> Automated CPAN testing is supposed to set the AUTOMATED_TESTING variable:
>
> http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes
>
> "Can I tell if my module is being tested by an automated client (a.k.a.
> 'smoker')?"
>
> Automated smoke testers should set $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING} to a true
> value. This allows authors to skip certain tests (or include certain tests)
> when the results are not being monitored by a human being.
>
> One could even go so far as to halt building and testing a distribution
> under automated testing by exiting with zero at the top of the Makefile.PL or
> Build.PL file:
>
> exit 0 if $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING};
>
>
> Please could you set AUTOMATED_TESTING in your smokers? thank you!
>
Actually, my smoker does not fail under this sentence: "... are not
being monitored by a human being". I look into every FAIL report before
sending. Really.
But I can setup a special rule in 01.DISABLED.yml for your distribution.
Regards,
Slaven
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