Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
Perhaps a perl-friendly firm might be able to offer some rack space for perl testing hardware? Dean On 2014-09-05 21:30, Curtis Jewell wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014, at 02:23, Dean Hamstead wrote: Amazon Smile may be worth setting up. TPF should probably make sure they are set up there. "Ye

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-07 Thread Curtis Jewell
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014, at 02:23, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > Amazon Smile may be worth setting up. > > TPF should probably make sure they are set up there. "Yet Another Society" (the official business name of TPF) is set up on Amazon Smile already. So yes, they're there. --Curtis > Dean --

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Amazon Smile may be worth setting up. TPF should probably make sure they are set up there. Dean On 2014-09-05 16:44, Barbie wrote: > Hi BooK, > > Unfortunately,the CPAN Testers Fund is quite substantial enough to set up > unusual platforms yet, but it may be a possibility in the future

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Barbie
Hi BooK, Unfortunately,the CPAN Testers Fund is quite substantial enough to set up unusual platforms yet, but it may be a possibility in the future. You currently have two ways to contribute to the CPAN Testers Fund. gittip/gratipay is one, but the main one is the Fund run by EPO - https://member

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
An SGI octane is quite cheap on ebay... i suspect there are plenty around that can be had for a case of beer or a decent bottle of wine. The expense would be the power costs... You raise a good point though. OpenBSD proudly shares their lab picture -> http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jp

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Gabor Szabo
Barbie will surely tell you more about it but this is the Gratipay account of CPAN testers: https://gratipay.com/cpantesters/ Gabor

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-09-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested > are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm > thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. > > Irix is an especially interesting p

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread Karen Etheridge
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested > are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm > thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. There's also other dimensions of testing w

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread Reini Urban
On 08/26/2014 06:35 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:49:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old h

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:49:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in > testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of > platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old hardware we could > beg/borrow/steal/ebay

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Andreas Koenig
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:49:14 +1000, Dean Hamstead > said: > Hi All > I was looking to fire up some cpan smokers, but adding yet another > linux i386/amd64 smoker probably isnt needed. In the past i have run > DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD smokers. Both Dragonfly and OpenBSD often h

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Im sort of looking for the opposite of that list, which would include hypothetical's Dean On 2014-08-26 14:13, Gabor Szabo wrote: > If I am not mistaken you are looking for the data I referred to yesterday > http://stats.cpantesters.org/mplatforms.html [1] > when I was looking for a grap

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
If I am not mistaken you are looking for the data I referred to yesterday http://stats.cpantesters.org/mplatforms.html when I was looking for a graph to see the trends in number of reports / OS (or rather platform). Sinan linked to a script extracting the data from the HTML, but I have not had time

Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi All I was looking to fire up some cpan smokers, but adding yet another linux i386/amd64 smoker probably isnt needed. In the past i have run DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD smokers. Looking through the list it's clear that there is a lot of coverage across a lot of different platforms, but its no