Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > >> Maybe the most practical option is still the global skip file >> mentioned by >> David Golden. Uninterested people would get a single unsollicited >> email, >> and would need to opt-out once only. > > > Except that the global skip file would need to apply to individual > bots, not the entire cpan-testers architecture. Again, I have no > problem with human reports. It's the bots I mind.
To be honest, it's usually humans that provide the least useful reports. The bots do a much better job. I'm all for the "robots.txt" sort of thing, though. I would like to get every FAIL mailed to me without having to subscribe to the cpan-testers mailing list. A frequent annoyance is seeing the IRC bot announce a failure but having to wait an hour for the nntp.perl.org archive to catch up before I can see what the problem is and start working on a fix. (It would be nice if the main cpantesters site updated faster also, but I'm fine with just email.) Regards, Jonathan Rockway
