On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:55:27PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: > It's bad enough I'm getting scolded for failures on 5.6.1, a platform > about which I do not give Shit One.
Automatically generated failure reports aren't scoldings. You're attributing emotion to them where they are intended to be merely information. Schwern has been writing about this recently: http://blog.geek2geek.info/2008/01/29/emotional-projection/ The sections on "avoiding projection as the reader" and "avoiding projection as the writer" would seem to be relevant. On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:21AM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: > Here's an analogue. How about if I start up a bot where I email all > the owners of every module if their modules don't run under taint > mode? Please do! I consider that to be a bug in my code, and fix it when practical. See, for example: http://search.cpan.org/src/DCANTRELL/Data-Compare-1.18/CHANGES where you will note that I've probably spent more time fiddling with bloody taint-mode than anything else! > Again, I ask: I would like bot notification to be opt-in only. While that might scratch your itch, consider the cost to the community. A spate of recent FAIL reports for XML-Validator-Schema - here's an example: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/01/msg970150.html resulted in an incompatibility being found between another module and recent versions of CPAN.pm. The relevant authors now know about it, and can fix it. If the author of XML-Validator-Schema hadn't been CCed on the failure report, no-one would have known about this. This was a real bug, which would have affected anyone trying to install XML::SAX using the version of CPAN.pm that is bundled with perl 5.10.0, rendering XML::SAX completely unusable despite it passing all its tests and the *code* being fine - it just wasn't installing properly. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
