On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:49 AM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Can I be sure that the tester reports I quoted were in response to the > latter ? .... or could they have been in response to the former ?
Look at the "Dear XXXX" part of the email, as that is generated from the author's PAUSE ID. This is one of the big, historical problems in the CPAN ecosystem. Many, many services assume that a distribution name is unique and there was never any restriction on that. Recently, at the QA Hackathon, PAUSE now will not index a distribution tarball unless the uploader has permissions on a package corresponding to the distribution name, but that only keeps the problem out of the index file. Many smokers test all uploads regardless of indexing status. The Metabase that holds the CPAN Testers info actually captures AUTHOR/TARBALL, but that's not exposed downstream so the "Dear XXXX" is the best you've got. David -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg
