I just had a chat with BooK where he basically said he entirely ignores
his cpantester emails. I've heard this sentiment at times before but
didn't pay it much mind. Since i know book a bit better though i told him
to mess with his prefs and asked him what his "Grade" setting was,
assuming he still has the default setting, and it turned out to be
"NONE,PASS,FAIL,NA,UNKNOWN".
Now if this is true then cpantesters is actually causing CPAN authors to
ignore the emails en masse; since authors get used to getting tons of
mails filled with only PASSes and miss the few emails where an actual FAIL
crops up.
Frankly, at this point i'm convinced that the best way forward is to
simply remove the PASS option there entirely, as it serves no practical
purpose.
(It's also unclear what, if anything, NONE does.)
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With regards,
Christian Walde
