On Sep 2, 2008, at 13:23, chromatic wrote:
I already know that my distributions don't work if you don't install
the
dependencies, or if you use an unsupported version of Perl. You
don't have
to waste anyone's time testing that. What I don't know is if my
distributions work on different operating systems or architectures.
I'd love
to know that, but if I have to wade through dozens of reports
containing no
useful information (or worse, sift through FAIL and UNKNOWN reports
containing no useful information about my code), it's not worth my
time
anymore. There's no maybe() function in Test::More for a reason.
Like Ovid, I don't mind the dubious FAILs all that much. I always
query the reporter when it's not immediately apparent to me what the
problem is (and I've added configure_requires and added a minimum perl
version to requires in Build.PL to address most of the failures I've
had), and most are quite responsive, helping me to diagnose failures
(mainly on Windows -- and David Golden has been very helpful there, I
might add) or telling me that it was an issue with their infrastructure.
I no longer pay attention to the report emails, though; I don't get
them all, for some reason. What I now use is the RSS feed:
http://cpantesters.perl.org/author/DWHEELER.rss
This makes it easy for me to sift through things. The only thing that
would make it better is if I could get it to display only FAILs. To
whom should a feature request be sent (I thought I sent a patch to
acme at one time…)?
Thanks,
David
