On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote: > Ricardo Signes <perl.test...@rjbs.manxome.org> writes: > >> Can we all agree that there's no reason at this date to be smoking with 5.13 >> or >> 5.15? > > One might argue the ultimate goal of cpantesters is to find bugs. I'd > say yes, but the bugs should be relevant. Bugs in very old and > irrelevant combinations are *usually* noise that makes useful work > harder for everybody involved.
You say "usually". Is there a case where it might be useful to test and send reports against an old version? As an alternative, would it be better to have cpantesters.org not email the authors when a test is run against old versions of Perl? That way each tester won't have to maintain an entry in their distroprefs. We can exclude in a central location.
