Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
Perhaps a perl-friendly firm might be able to offer some rack space for perl testing hardware? Dean On 2014-09-05 21:30, Curtis Jewell wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014, at 02:23, Dean Hamstead wrote: Amazon Smile may be worth setting up. TPF should probably make sure they are set up there.

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. Irix is an especially interesting

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Gabor Szabo
Barbie will surely tell you more about it but this is the Gratipay account of CPAN testers: https://gratipay.com/cpantesters/ Gabor

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
An SGI octane is quite cheap on ebay... i suspect there are plenty around that can be had for a case of beer or a decent bottle of wine. The expense would be the power costs... You raise a good point though. OpenBSD proudly shares their lab picture -

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:49:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old hardware we could beg/borrow/steal/ebay)

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread Reini Urban
On 08/26/2014 06:35 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:49:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread Karen Etheridge
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. There's also other dimensions of testing

Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi All I was looking to fire up some cpan smokers, but adding yet another linux i386/amd64 smoker probably isnt needed. In the past i have run DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD smokers. Looking through the list it's clear that there is a lot of coverage across a lot of different platforms, but its

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
If I am not mistaken you are looking for the data I referred to yesterday http://stats.cpantesters.org/mplatforms.html when I was looking for a graph to see the trends in number of reports / OS (or rather platform). Sinan linked to a script extracting the data from the HTML, but I have not had