CPAN distribution Test-Simple does not appear to be getting adequate
coverage by CPANtesters.
When I go to this page:
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http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple
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... the main heading says:
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CPAN Testers Matrix: Test-Simple 2.00_07
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If you click through to the reports for any one OS, e.g.,
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http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple%202.00_06;os=linux;perl=5.13.9;reports=1
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... you see that the most recent tests are from this time of year in 2011!
If you return to the first page and scroll down far enough, you come to:
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Other versions
Test-Simple 2.00_06
Test-Simple 2.00_05
Test-Simple 2.00_04
Test-Simple 2.00_03
Test-Simple 2.00_02
Test-Simple 2.00_01
Test-Simple 1.302076-TRIAL
Test-Simple 1.302075 (latest distribution according to latest META
file)
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If I go to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/, I see that 1.302075
is the latest release and that 1.302076-TRIAL is the current "Developer
Release". Normally I would expect Test-Simple 1.302075 to have had
hundreds of CPANtesters reports across many versions of Perl and many
different OSes. Instead, all I see is:
5.14.2: One test on Darwin
5.24.1: One test on Cygwin
5.25.9: One test on Linux
5.25.10: One test on Linux
Something is clearly wrong here.
My hunch is that back in 2011 some Devel version of what was expected to
be Test-Simple 2.00 was picked up by the then current testers and
reports generated -- and that since 2.00_06 is the highest version
number visible, other testers are not picking up the real current releases.
In Perl 5 blead, Test-Simple is passing most -- but not all -- of its
test as part of Perl 5 core smoke testing (cf.
http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/52322 for a failure on OpenBSD). But
we don't have a good idea of how well Test-Simple's most recent versions
across both versions of Perl and OSes.
Am I missing something?
How can this be remedied?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
