Hi BooK, Unfortunately,the CPAN Testers Fund is quite substantial enough to set up unusual platforms yet, but it may be a possibility in the future.
You currently have two ways to contribute to the CPAN Testers Fund. gittip/gratipay is one, but the main one is the Fund run by EPO - https://members.enlightenedperl.org/drupal/donate-cpan-testers. Once the gratipay account gets big enough to withdraw, I plan to put it into the Fund held by EPO. We can use this to pay for the current servers we have. If the Fund grows enough, particularly if we had regular donations from companies as per Mark Keating's suggestion, then buying/leasing servers/VMs for specific platforms might be an option. However, at the moment we have to rely on the good will of the testing community :) Cheers, 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, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) < philippe.bru...@free.fr> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > > The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested > > are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm > > thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. > > > > Irix is an especially interesting platform, both for CPAN authors and > > p5p, because it doesn't so much have a compiler as a complier. Back when > > I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made > > about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying another > > Irix machine. One day. > > Do CPAN Testers as an organisation have funds that can be allocated to buy > (and host) such interesting machines? Would it make sense to set up one? > > Is gittip^Wgratipay the right place to send some money to CPAN Testers? > > -- > Philippe Bruhat (BooK) > > It matters not how grand your plans when they are built on a faulty > foundation. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #19 > (Epic)) >
