# from Andy Lester on Friday 05 September 2008 17:12: >On Sep 5, 2008, at 7:07 PM, brian d foy wrote: >> CPAN Testers is what happens in a world of open source. Anyone gets >> to look at and comment on your code, whether you agree with them or >> not, and they don't need anyone's permission. > >That's a very helpful explanation you gave there. > >What they do need permission to do is send me the mass mail, and >fortunately that's what's going to happen.
Yes. Though I wouldn't be opposed to them (or any service) mailing new authors once with a welcome basket. Subject: Welcome from CPAN testers Hi. This mail is from the cpantesters. We are a group of helpful volunteers who automatically download and test modules from the CPAN. You are receiving this mail because we've just tested your first ever CPAN distribution, on $n platforms, [congratulations and so on, etc.] Results: 11 PASSes! To receive mail notifications or subscribe to RSS feeds, click ... You know, a "hello" that doesn't start with "FAIL!" And the same goes for any new CPAN-related service or big change or whatever. A nice message telling me about something I might like is probably ok to get ~12 random times per year (in the absence of a PAUSE newsletter or some other method of managing preferences globally.) And I would love to see all of that collected together in one single nice welcome basket from CPAN ("hi, here is a list of helpful resources"), but not if it means we have to argue about what goes in the basket. Of course, you can only be a new author once, so I'm just using my imagination. --Eric -- But you can never get 3n from n, ever, and if you think you can, please email me the stock ticker of your company so I can short it. --Joel Spolsky --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------