FWIW Magpie works the same way (it parses the log.txt) and if the
distribution field is not a valid distribution it gets skipped. Checking
Magpie I see the most current version is 2.039 as well.
https://matrix.perl-magpie.org/dist/Socket
Either the reporting tools are reporting the distribution incorrectly,
or somehow CPT is mangling it on receipt.
-- Scottchiefbaker
On 7/22/2025 1:24 PM, Slaven Rezic wrote:
22. 07. 2025. u 14:13, James E Keenan piše:
[...]
Seven days later, http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Socket
remains stuck at 2.039 but also displays the advisory "NOTE: no
report for latest version 2.040". I don't know whether this applies
to reports for other CPAN distributions.
So my impression is that our recovery from the problems of July 15 is
incomplete. Could these be investigated? Thank you very much.
Hello James,
short answer: of the three matrix services just use
*https://fast2-matrix.cpantesters.org* . It is the most reliable, it
is "fast" in the sense that uploaded reports are typically listed
within 5-10 minutes and it is currently also the matrix variant which
is linked from MetaCPAN. It is not perfect: in rare cases it can
respond with a 50x error, but typically the next reload should be
successful.
Why fast-matrix (without the "2") still exists? There are very rare
situations (really rare, I think it happened only once since
fast2-matrix was setup) when it can happen that neither fast2-matrix
nor matrix get fresh data, but the metabase log.txt still works, and
thus fast-matrix.
And why fast-matrix was broken? Well, this seems always to be the case
if there's an MetaCPAN outage. All CPAN distributions uploaded during
such a period are /permanently/ missing in some database which log.txt
relies on (Doug, maybe you can tell more about it?). Some minutes ago
I produced a test report for Socket-2.040 and the log.txt line looks
like this:
[2025-07-22T19:26:58Z] [Slaven Rezić] [pass] [/] [x86_64-linux]
[perl-v5.42.0] [d5807482-6731-11f0-a6e5-7e026e8775ea] [2025-07-22T19:26:58Z]
The field [/] should normally show the author/distribution name.
Without it, the log.txt parser for fast-matrix can only drop this report.
Sorry for the confusion,
Slaven
