chromatic wrote: > I just went through a sampling of fail reports for my stuff. There was one > legitimate packaging bug, and a couple of legitimate errors due to updates to > Perl. About 35% of the other reports are these.
I just went through a sampling of *recent* fail reports for your stuff. Funnily enough, they were all reports from me although I didn't intend for that to happen. They all looked like they contained a reasonable amount of information, at least when you consider that they're automated reports. If you need more information you know where to contact me. > I love the "Illegal seek" error message: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg602208.html If that happened in my code I would at least want to find out some more about it, perhaps by emailing the tester. > Pod::Man is broken. Think about that for a while: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2006/01/msg286775.html You wouldn't be the first person whose code tickled a bug in a core module. The most useful response is to say to the tester "thankyou, but this isn't my bug" or to notify whoever is responsible for Pod::Man yourself. > No information; useless: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/07/msg221656.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2006/02/msg290834.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/07/msg223400.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/07/msg223401.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/07/msg223402.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/07/msg222475.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2005/06/msg216573.html > What am I supposed to do? Reply to the reporter? "I'm sorry, this report is > useless! Please fix your installation of Perl and try again." When people say that to me, I take the time to find the bug in their code and tell them, or I fix my shit, or I say "thanks, I've now reported the bug to its real owner". But it's nigh-on always a bug in their code. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE
