On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:15:36PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > 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!"
That is exactly what I have designed, although if you don't mind I'll pinch your introductory paragraph, as it's better than mine ;) I'm working on the preferences site now, but it is unlikely to be live straight away, as it needs to integrate with PAUSE (secure logins) and potentially we may have new central server available to cpan-testers, which will mean porting the current sites and data to it. However, in the interim, the plan is to send new authors a welcome message, with links. With existing authors we will move to a collated mail, once a day, with details of how to stop getting them. This will currently consist of mailing me and asking to have your preferences set to NONE. The patch that David Wheeler has written for an RSS feed for no PASSes has already been included into the new report site. The launch of the site has been put on hold, while I sort out the new mailer. Further RSS may become available after the current round of fixes have been done. If you haven't seen my use.perl post [1], it details some of the thoughts of moving the reports site to a dynamic site. This will enable viewing preferences to be held in a cookie that can automatically display the default display that you wish to see. In addition this also means that an API used by search.cpan.org, can then use those same cookies to tailor the string you see against your distribution. Once again I can only apologise for not having enough time to have implemented all these things already, but I only took over the website and data generation code just before YAPC::NA and have been working on it almost non-stop since. [1] http://use.perl.org/~barbie/journal/37258 Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
