DNA.pm failed its tests. I want to reassure the smoker that this is actually normal, or at least part of the joke. It mutated. :)
Here's the failure report: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/03/msg3537903.html Now, where are the instructions on how I respond? How do I correspond with the reporter? How do I get more information? I ask not for myself, I know the answers to this and they suck. I've bitched about this before and its not necessary to go into details again. I ask as Joe Newbie CPAN Author who just got his first pile of failure reports and has no idea what to do next. There are two URLs in the report. One is for the main cpantesters.org site which is too broad. The other is supposed to point at information about how to fix the failure, but the site is down and that too seems to generic and mostly directed at how the author might fix their module. Not about how to contact the tester for more information. http://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes What there should be is simple instructions on how to get a message back to the tester. This should be a single link or email address. [1] An immediate and relatively simple fix is to provide a single use mail address on the report. A hash of the reporter's name and some unique information about the report, perhaps something as simple as a UUID. The author mails that and its delivered to the appropriate things, probably the test reporter and maybe cpan-testers as well. The important thing is there should be a clear and straightforward path for the author to take to correspond with the tester right there in the report, whatever form it takes. [1] The NNTP reflection thing is too many steps for the author. It didn't work when I just tried it. -- <Schwern> What we learned was if you get confused, grab someone and swing them around a few times -- Life's lessons from square dancing
