# from David Golden
# on Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:52:

>> Send an error report immediately after the commit, and the committer
>> (who may know exactly what went wrong without looking) will probably
>> still be available to fix it.
>
>What if we moved to a more regular alpha release schedule?  That would
> get CPAN Testers involved to check things.  That's not quite granular
> to each commit, but it will speed up the feedback cycle quite a bit.

That would mean more quality at the cost of more eric.

Ideally, I would (when wearing my release manager hat once per week) 
have a green button for "push an alpha" and a green button for "push a 
release".  I can make the buttons, but the information "go for alpha" 
needs to come from e.g. trunk having passed the tests on a sufficient 
set of perls+platforms, and the information "go for release" would come 
from a week or two worth of cpantesters results.

At the moment, that information is either missing or very far from being 
aggregated into even a red light.

Is testing against svn commits too difficult?  If so, what would make it 
easier?

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