Thanks! I've sent an email to the admin@ address. Is this something that can be put on the wiki.cpantesters.org (assuming that wiki.cpantesters.org is only temporarily down - right now it is giving a connection reset error)?
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Doug Bell <d...@preaction.me> wrote: > CPAN Testers gets your name when your client gets an error saying that > your Metabase GUID does not exist, but from there, it stays what it was. > So, there are two ways: > > 1. Create a new profile. Sub-optimal, for the reasons you said. > 2. Ask me. Send me a private e-mail (ad...@cpantesters.org) including > your metabase_id.json (which should have your GUID in it, the thing that I > need). I can then update your information to whatever you'd like. > > Part 2 could be automated in the future. But, for now, this is easiest. > > I suspect there is also a way to update Metabase profiles, but I'm not > sure if any client implements it, and I am fairly certain that my > replacement Metabase server does not do that correctly. So, if anyone has > some insight on how to update a Metabase profile, I can fix my server to > make sure it works correctly. > > Doug Bell > d...@preaction.me > > > > On May 29, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Joelle Maslak <jmas...@antelope.net> wrote: > > My old name is still showing up in CPAN testers reports I'm submitting (I > can see it in log.txt from cpantesters.org, for instance). > > I don't want this. > > My metabase_id.json file has been manually edited to reflect my name > instead of the old one, but I didn't generate a new metabase profile - this > is the same profile I've been using since 2015. I'd love to keep the same > profile, as I've submitted many tests under it. While I'd love to change > history, really what I'm asking is at least new reports should show my > current name. > > Where does cpantesters.org get my name from? Do I just need to generate a > new metabase profile, or am I missing changing something to get the name on > the old profile to change? > > >
