Display Name in Test Reports

[Joelle Maslak]

My old name is still showing up in CPAN testers reports I'm submitting (I
can see it in log.txt from cpantesters.org, for instance).

I don't want this.

My metabase_id.json file has been manually edited to reflect my name
instead of the old one, but I didn't generate a new metabase profile - this
is the same profile I've been using since 2015. I'd love to keep the same
profile, as I've submitted many tests under it. While I'd love to change
history, really what I'm asking is at least new reports should show my
current name.

Where does cpantesters.org get my name from? Do I just need to generate a
new metabase profile, or am I missing changing something to get the name on
the old profile to change?

Re: Display Name in Test Reports

[Doug Bell]

CPAN Testers gets your name when your client gets an error saying that your 
Metabase GUID does not exist, but from there, it stays what it was. So, there 
are two ways:

1. Create a new profile. Sub-optimal, for the reasons you said.
2. Ask me. Send me a private e-mail (ad...@cpantesters.org) including your 
metabase_id.json (which should have your GUID in it, the thing that I need). I 
can then update your information to whatever you'd like.

Part 2 could be automated in the future. But, for now, this is easiest.

I suspect there is also a way to update Metabase profiles, but I'm not sure if 
any client implements it, and I am fairly certain that my replacement Metabase 
server does not do that correctly. So, if anyone has some insight on how to 
update a Metabase profile, I can fix my server to make sure it works correctly.

Doug Bell
d...@preaction.me



> On May 29, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Joelle Maslak  wrote:
> 
> My old name is still showing up in CPAN testers reports I'm submitting (I can 
> see it in log.txt from cpantesters.org , for 
> instance).
> 
> I don't want this.
> 
> My metabase_id.json file has been manually edited to reflect my name instead 
> of the old one, but I didn't generate a new metabase profile - this is the 
> same profile I've been using since 2015.  I'd love to keep the same profile, 
> as I've submitted many tests under it.  While I'd love to change history, 
> really what I'm asking is at least new reports should show my current name.
> 
> Where does cpantesters.org  get my name from?  Do I 
> just need to generate a new metabase profile, or am I missing changing 
> something to get the name on the old profile to change?



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Re: [off-topic] status of Archite::Tar::Wrapper

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 05:51:39PM -0300, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
cpan-testers-discuss wrote:

> This is a bit off-topic, but do you guys now the status of 
> Archive::Tar::Wrapper project?
> 
> I understand it is quite used by us (since it's faster to unpack 
> tarballs than the alternatives) but it just doesn't work on OpenBSD.
> 
> I sent a Pull Request of a fix for it 
> (https://github.com/mschilli/archive-tar-wrapper-perl/pull/11) but so 
> far didn't get any feedback from Mr. Schilli.

Github doesn't automatically send notifications when PRs are created, so
unless the author is regularly checking for them he won't know that your
PR exists. Have you tried emailing him?

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