Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-26 Thread David Landgren
David Cantrell wrote: It didn't want to install on 5.6.2 (unless anyone screams and tells me it's a stupid idea, I think that telling authors when their modules don't work on older perls is a Very Good Thing) because of a long dependency chain down to some utf8 wossnames. The fix was to manuall

Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-12 Thread David Golden
On 2/12/07, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now if you'll excuse me I think I need to write some procmail rules so > > that everyone elses FAILS and PASSes don't swamp me ... > That's a good idea I'd never thought of. I shall follow. Don't forget to exclude test results for yo

Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:42:27AM +0800, imacat wrote: > 1. I strongly suggest creating a seperated, non-root perl > installation only for testing, and testing it as a non-root account, in > order to avoid beta-release packages to compromise your own system. ... in a virtual machine whose i

Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:47:33AM -0500, David Golden wrote: > >David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Prompted by one of barbie's wibblings in his journal, I've decided to > >> become a tester. But the http://testers.cpan.org/ page is out of date - > >> the CPANPLUS TesterGuide.pod that

Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-12 Thread David Golden
On 2/12/07, imacat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:16:59 + David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prompted by one of barbie's wibblings in his journal, I've decided to > become a tester. But the http://testers.cpan.org/ page is out of date - > the CPANPLUS TesterGuide.

Re: How to become a tester

2007-02-12 Thread imacat
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:16:59 + David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prompted by one of barbie's wibblings in his journal, I've decided to > become a tester. But the http://testers.cpan.org/ page is out of date - > the CPANPLUS TesterGuide.pod that it points to no longer exists. Is > th

How to become a tester

2007-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
Prompted by one of barbie's wibblings in his journal, I've decided to become a tester. But the http://testers.cpan.org/ page is out of date - the CPANPLUS TesterGuide.pod that it points to no longer exists. Is there a dummies' guide anywhere? Now if you'll excuse me I think I need to write some