On Friday 05 September 2008 11:23:07 David E. Wheeler wrote: > And if you have to opt-in, I imagine that would solve the biggest > complaint, yes? It's the unsolicited email reports that are annoying, > right?
They are annoying, but I'm not sure it's my biggest complaint. There's also the arbitrariness of the upload/debug/revise cycle of trying to please a black box full of testers. I'm not willing to say that this is primarily the fault of CPAN Testers, but it does expose a lot of cracks in the CPAN plumbing. It's a little bit like trying to have a discussion with someone who's upset but won't tell you why, and you have to guess and hope you don't make things worse before you get a useful answer. > Well, you can upload a dev version to CPAN and the testing bots will > test it, I believe. It'd be nice if there was a separate place to > upload code to be tested before you actually released it. That'd be > very handy indeed. Even being able to identify from a distribution which CPAN Testers platforms will even try to run tests would help. (Oh dear, this'll get all of those 5.005 boxes running my code.) I do like how CPANTS lists the original dozen or so Kwalitee metrics and their solutions on the individual distribution Kwalitee pages. -- c
