Nick Clark suggested I forward this plea for help onto the CPAN Testers. Anyone already have the bits and bobs for this and can set it up?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Build bots, smoke servers & Smolder Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:16:04 -0700 From: Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> To: makemaker <[email protected]>, [email protected] This MakeMaker release has several totally avoidable bugs. The most odious of which is that it won't pass tests on a clean 5.8.8. This was present in 6.51_03 and 6.51_04. Nobody caught it. It also clearly fails on VMS, again present in several alphas. On top of that it busts building bleadperl on Windows and VMS. Now I need to spend the weekend fixing these bugs. Clearly its past time I got an automated smoke server. MakeMaker and Test::More both need build bots that can pull from git, smoke servers of various interesting OS' and a Smolder instance to send the results to. I have a full time job now so my time to work on all this is limited, and I've got a week and a half before a block of speaking engagements kicks off. And I just wasted tonight unexpectedly rewriting my DSL. If someone could do this, set up smoke bots [1] and smolder system running off the github repositories, that would be a huge help! [1] Keep it simple, it ideally has to work on Unix, Windows and VMS. -- You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <31832.969261...@chthon>
