# 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
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