On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 07:20:49AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > I'm *very* sympathetic to you feeling on the firing line and would > like to avoid that. I think we're in a much better place due to not > emailing authors directly and providing them with easy options to set > notification preferences. Plus we point them to the FAQ.
This is true. I think with CPAN Testers have a bigger profile these days, and with authors being more understanding, testers aren't seen as the enemy any more. > Let's pick up the conversation when we start work on the CT2.0 clients. > > In the meantime, I think it's more sensible to have the *smokers* skip > things based on heuristics like name. If I'm smoking on linux, I > should skip Win32-* and so on. I think that is certainly a possibility, and was one of the solutions I employed, but it does mean that any Win32 dist that is really cross-platform is less likely to be spotted in this example. When I have a bit more time, I might investigate how many OS namespace dists have PASS reports on other OSes :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
