On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 09:35:36PM +0200, Christian Walde wrote: > The specific issue is that many authors are not aware they can > change the settings at all, and default to using the websites > because the emails are just daily spam. That is what they told me.
While the footers on every email report do mention the prefs page, it doesn't specifically say that the frequency or type of reports can be adjusted -- so adding that information may help. Say, something like: -If you wish to unsubscribe from these notifications, or wish... +You can also adjust the frequency and nature of these reports by going +to https://prefs.cpantesters.org. + +If you wish to unsubscribe from these notifications entirely, or wish... > >What would be the consensus for the default? "FAIL,UNKNOWN" or > >"FAIL,NA,UNKNOWN" ? > > I would vote for all three, since ALL of them are failures, just > from different parts of the process. NA reports are generally useless - usually they indicate that the smoker is running an incompatible OS or perl version. I have no interest in receiving lots of NA reports for Moose on perl 5.6, for example. (Is there an example of a *useful* NA report that deserves a notification?
