Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:13:52AM +0800, imacat wrote: Oh... sorry. I do not know the cpan-testers-discuss list does not set the Reply-to: header, and I did not check it. Maybe I shall write to the list manager some other time. Here, have a procmail recipe to fix that :-) :0 fHw *

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-20 Thread imacat
On 01/20/2009 12:07 AM, David Westbrook wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: 2. Sorry I posted your mail on the list. I do not see any reason why this mail is off-list. Your first reply was directly to me, and not to the list (so the list is

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-20 Thread David Westbrook
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: Proposition: + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited just to distributions that have any version installed on the system (instead of all of CPAN). I still do not see at all. 1.

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:13 AM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: On 01/20/2009 12:07 AM, David Westbrook wrote: Proposition: + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited just to distributions that have any version installed on the system (instead of all of

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: 2. Sorry I posted your mail on the list. I do not see any reason why this mail is off-list. Your first reply was directly to me, and not to the list (so the list is probably missing some context here), which is why i

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:07 PM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: Proposition: + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited just to distributions that have any version installed on the system (instead of all of CPAN). In general I think this is a good

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread Alceu R. de Freitas Jr.
--- Em seg, 19/1/09, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com escreveu: For additional safety you might want to limit the installations to 1) Modules that already have N reports in the database meaning that some other testers have already tested it. 2) Modules that have been on CPAN for at

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: Pros: + In theory is safer than full smoke, since only testing trusted distros (and their deps) -- the user trusted the distro enough to install it in the first place. For additional safety you might want to limit the

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.comwrote: (does ::Safer imply a negative connotation towards CPAN::Reporter::Smoker?) Not one that bothers me. After all, I put this in the C::R::S Pod: WARNING -- smoke testing is

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-18 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.comwrote: Whereas you wouldn't want to run a smoker on a regular machine (e.g. a $work box, or your day-to-day windows desktop, or laptop, etc), this is reasonably safe since it's only testing distros that you already

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-18 Thread David Westbrook
thanks for the comments! Any suggestions for a good CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* subclass name? --david On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: Whereas you wouldn't want to run a smoker