Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:15 AM, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll do the work to handle the ones the authors give up without a maintainer, and my first idea was that a virtual user than we advertised as free modules (free as in kittens) would move modules int willing homes faster. But

Re: s/FAIL/welcome basket/

2008-09-06 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until PAUSE starts doing that, how do you let new authors know about cpantesters? Also note that creation of an account may be separated from uploading a module by several years. IMHO it is easy to add a few lines about the

Re: s/FAIL/welcome basket/

2008-09-06 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:15:36PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Yes. Though I wouldn't be opposed to them (or any service) mailing new authors once with a welcome basket. Subject: Welcome from CPAN testers Hi. This mail is from the cpantesters. We are a group of helpful

World-writable files in CPAN Distributions

2008-09-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I'm smoke-testing the CPAN distributions using CPAN::YACSmoke, in an under-privileged user. Now I'm using Mandriva Cooker and have msec running, and, as a result, am getting warnings that I have world-writable files in the directories where the CPAN modules were built:

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Or, Andreas could change PAUSE, which is a bit more involved :) Do you not know the abandoned flag? Or not considering it appropriate? On the Edit Module Metadata page the DSLIP status has under Support Level:

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:15:04 -0700, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], (Andreas J. Koenig) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Or, Andreas could change PAUSE, which is a bit more

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hi, brian d foy wrote: Beyond that, is there a way for everyone to see the list of those modules? That's what I meant about you changing pause, much like you did for 06.perms. It would also be nice to see that bit set somewhere like CPAN Search, maybe with a button that says I want to take

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], (Andreas J. Koenig) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:15:04 -0700, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], (Andreas J. Koenig) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700, brian d foy

[ANNOUNCE] Test::More 0.81_01

2008-09-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
http://test-more.googlecode.com/files/Test-Simple-0.81_01.tar.gz Before I start tearing up the guts of Test::Builder in earnest, I figure I should get a last release out. Here's an alpha of Test::More with a bunch of new little features and bug fixes, including... * note() which is like diag()

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-06 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-05 19:50]: If I could see somehow that my distribution implicitly runs on Perl 5.001 (or explicitly runs only on 5.11.0), or that it has no Makefile.PL or Build.PL, or any of the other dozens of packaging

Re: Reporting Bugs Where they Belong (was Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality)

2008-09-06 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:15 PM, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will identify it, but testers may or may not see the warning as it scrolls by in the CPAN output. Not much I can do about that. But it will suppress the reports at least. Actually you can send an e-mail about this to