Hi Christian, I just checked the database and there are only 28 authors with a NONE in their settings, and 18 of them have all five options checked!
The new author default is just 'FAIL' (and the setting for 8579 authors), so I'll not bother changing that. If authors want more they can include them. BooK's settings are 'FAIL,NA,UNKNOWN', which would seem reasonable, and he shouldn't be getting inundated. If authors are ignoring the mails, it's more likely that they are using the website more to reference their failing distributions. Thanks, Barbie. -- Birmingham.pm - http://birmingham.pm.org CPAN Testers - http://cpantesters.org YAPC Surveys - http://yapc-surveys.org Perl Jam - http://perljam.info On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Barbie <bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > I have to confess I'd forgotten what NONE means myself, but it essentially > blocks reports. I can't remember why it made sense at the time, but I think > it only leads to confusion now. If there is a more suitable default, I can > change that. Although this would only be for new authors. Changing the > default settings for existing authors might not be wanted. Then again if > someone hasn't changed the default settings, likely they wouldn't be too > disheartened to have them altered for them to be more useful. > > Also, despite what I thought was a clear explanation in the email of what > to do to disable emails, it does seem some authors find it easier to write > me a long ranting email! If emails are getting ignored, I can look to > making the disable/unsubscribe process easier too. > > What would be the consensus for the default? "FAIL,UNKNOWN" or > "FAIL,NA,UNKNOWN" ? > > I'll look to getting this simplified over the next few weeks, then > potentially updating existing author defaults, and will remove 'NONE' too. > > Thanks, > Barbie. > > > -- > Birmingham.pm - http://birmingham.pm.org > CPAN Testers - http://cpantesters.org > YAPC Surveys - http://yapc-surveys.org > Perl Jam - http://perljam.info > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Christian Walde <walde.christ...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> I just had a chat with BooK where he basically said he entirely ignores >> his cpantester emails. I've heard this sentiment at times before but didn't >> pay it much mind. Since i know book a bit better though i told him to mess >> with his prefs and asked him what his "Grade" setting was, assuming he >> still has the default setting, and it turned out to be >> "NONE,PASS,FAIL,NA,UNKNOWN". >> >> Now if this is true then cpantesters is actually causing CPAN authors to >> ignore the emails en masse; since authors get used to getting tons of mails >> filled with only PASSes and miss the few emails where an actual FAIL crops >> up. >> >> Frankly, at this point i'm convinced that the best way forward is to >> simply remove the PASS option there entirely, as it serves no practical >> purpose. >> >> (It's also unclear what, if anything, NONE does.) >> >> -- >> With regards, >> Christian Walde >> > >
