Today mischief befalls me. CPAN::Reporter::Smoker 0.05 goes nuts, sends out who knows how many bogus FAILs and after I come home from work I find sitting in my inbox several module authors' replies to point that out. One suggested to shut it down, and so I did. Three dutifully obliged to cc the cpan-testers list as it said in the report, so none of the replies landed here, but that is a topic for another mail.
My smoker ballooned the -I includes to enormous sizes of up to 1500 additional directories and during testing programs could not be executed anymore. I pasted an excerpt at <http://sial.org/pbot/30510> and truncated the long lines from 569250 characters to 300. I would have finished with my investigation earlier, if not for two reasons. ➀ I am not able to keep copies of the mails the smoker sends out. The system is simple, but unflexible like that and I am not the mail admin of that machine, so I cannot do magic behind the scenes to make it work. Tips welcome. ➁ The reports do not show up in the public web archives. I assume this is due to <http://xrl.us/bhitc>, but the situation is not so simple anymore. Long ago I already sent a miniscule amount of reports using a different setup, and I was also subscribed to cpan-testers to make the reports go right through, and they did. I was subscribed until 2007-09-23, when the mails just stopped coming. I thought it must be because of the switch-over to -discuss, and we had -discuss already for a month and at that time, I was reading testers for the chatter only anyway, so I shrugged and did not care to think about that strange event anymore. According to ~/.cpanreporter/reports-sent.db I sent 2624 reports in the last ten days. I guess they are held now for inspection somewhere, and I cannot subscribe to cpan-testers to make reports go right through because the list does not allow that anymore since recently. So would the responsible inspection person please tell me what I need to do? PS: Next time I will think harder about a good mail subject.
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