On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Shmuel Fomberg <ow...@semuel.co.il> wrote: > On 2011/07/03 1:02, David Cantrell wrote: >>> >>> Oh, and by the way, can someone make the server reject report from >>> ancient Perl versions? >> >> Why? > > Because it gives the feeling that we support them. > I think that there is someone who is running a smoker on Perl 5.6. do we > want authors to get error reports because some feature that they used does > not exists or was buggy on that version? > I'm not advocating of throwing everything before 5.12, but I think that > version 5.8.9 if the earliest we should accept.
This meme comes up in some variety or another a few times a year. Let me respond before the bikeshedding gets too advanced. CPAN Testers reports are just data, they aren't being "curated" in any way. If authors don't want failure reports on ancient Perls, they are advised to be explicit with "use 5.006" or "use 5.008009" or whatever is the earliest version they choose to support. Likewise, if authors don't wish to be notified about reports, they can customize notification on the preferences site: https://prefs.cpantesters.org/ -- David Golden
