On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Andy Armstrong wrote:
His view: cpan-testers are incompetent, ego tripping, quasi-
religious nuisances.
I think there's some truth to this view.
For support I submit this bug ticket - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/
Display.html?id=27208
On the other hand, that was an exception, though a really annoying
one.
My other big annoyance with smoke testers/reporters is that a lot
of folks simply do not respond to requests for more information.
It's generally pretty rare that the failure report includes enough
information for me to do anything about it, so without an engaged
party on the other end, it really is just noise.
Interesting. I can understand imacat's point of view, though. If
cpan-testers were all to install Module::Build, then nobody would be
doing automated testing of what happens when a user lacking
Module::Build tries to install your module. I see that more as
striving for good test coverage than ego-tripping.
But I can see how it could be annoying to authors too...
Chris
