Amazon Smile may be worth setting up.
TPF should probably make sure they are set up there. Dean On 2014-09-05 16:44, Barbie wrote: > 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 [1]. 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 [2] > CPAN Testers - http://cpantesters.org [3] > YAPC Surveys - http://yapc-surveys.org [4] > Perl Jam - http://perljam.info [5] > > 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)) Links: ------ [1] https://members.enlightenedperl.org/drupal/donate-cpan-testers [2] http://birmingham.pm.org [3] http://cpantesters.org [4] http://yapc-surveys.org [5] http://perljam.info
