Doug:
I just want to re-iterate what Ruth said: we want to work *together
*with you /and /the community make CPT the rock solid, reliable tool
that the community is used to. As a module author CPT is an invaluable
tool to know how things perform in the "real-world" beyond my local machine.
There have been multiple conversations on IRC #cpantesters-discuss with
people expressing concern and offering help for CPT. It's a very /well
regarded /tool in the Perl community. Would you be amenable to a
mini-meeting on IRC (or Zoom) prior to PTS to talk about the health and
status of CPT as it stands today? It might be helpful to get everyone at
least on the same page prior to PTS so we can maximize the in-person
time to coming up with solutions.
I setup remote monitoring of CPT using Nagios
<https://www.perturb.org/nagios/vshell/services.php?host_filter=cpantesters.org>
(user/pass: readonly) so the community would have some historical
reporting about CPT's uptime. If I check it right now I can see that the
API has been down for the last four hours. Is there is anything I can do
short term to help with the system, I'd be happy to donate some of my time.
I am the Senior System Administrator for DirectLink. I've been doing
Linux system administration for 20+ years now. If there is anything I
can do on the server side to help take some of the burden off of you
please let me know. I would be happy to help with system tasks. I run
our local OSS mirror: https://mirror.web-ster.com/. I can also spin up
some compute VMs for CPT if there is need for that. There was also some
discussion about getting some VMs donated by the FSF as well.
If you're open to some help my SSH key is: ssh-ed25519
AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOwvHmHSRjm3i6d1O5Se9RuiV9Te3OCihJuScS1IV1zX
bak...@basement.web-ster.com
-- Scottchiefbaker
On 4/6/2025 11:45 AM, Ruth Holloway wrote:
Doug,
Thank you so much for your well-thought-out response in this thread.
The Perl Magpie team--at the moment--is composed of Scott Baker and
myself; we were riffing on IRC about how to provide more consistent
access to test results, and the idea for the Magpie running in
parallel to the existing system as a source of test results was born.
There's been some prototyping done, with some happy successes, but it
is by no means a production-ready product. Scott had shown off those
results in the IRC channel, and there were a few folks who made
suggestions, and a few offers of assistance. That's the history, as it
stands now.
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