On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://perl.grango.org/testers.html > > Helpful hint: you can get the top spot if you forge reports and don't mess > with all of that nasty downloading, configuring, compiling, and testing. > Just send PASS, FAIL, or NA for random platforms for each new distro uploaded > to the CPAN. > > You encourage what you measure,
In theory, yes. In practice, that hasn't been the experience to date. Testers over 70K: 1 587018 Chris Williams (BINGOS) 2 318527 Andreas J. König (ANDK) 3 188392 David Golden (DAGOLDEN) 4 151457 David Cantrell (DCANTRELL) 5 148505 Slaven Rezić (SREZIC) 6 73425 Jost Krieger (JOST) 7 73104 Yi Ma Mao (IMACAT) Do you think this group couldn't game the stats if all they wanted was a high score? Being snide about peoples volunteer efforts isn't particularly constructive. If you think that people should be rewarded (acknowledged?) for "useful" reports, start defining "useful" and the heuristics you'd use to identify them. David
