Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-06-25 Thread David Golden
Hi. In chasing a bug flushed out on my smoker, Peter Flanigan temporarily added an "exit 0" to Makefile.PL if @INC matched my particular unique path to perl. That's obviously a quick hack, but in subsequent discussion, he asked whether it would be possible to put the tester's ID in an environment

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-06-25 Thread Barbie
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:06:11AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > * Is flagging tester in an environment variable a good idea? Bad idea? Is this so the author can specifically target a tester who they don't wish to test their distribution? If this is because of a bug, and the bug gets fixed, tha

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-06-25 Thread David Cantrell
David Golden wrote: Hi. In chasing a bug flushed out on my smoker, Peter Flanigan temporarily added an "exit 0" to Makefile.PL if @INC matched my particular unique path to perl. > That's obviously a quick hack, but in subsequent discussion, he asked whether it would be possible to put the tes

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-06-25 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the plus side, it makes it easier to see who sent a report in the >> NNTP web interface when the From line is obscured. > > Do test reports include a link to Barbie's NNTP de-obfuscator yet? At least CPAN::Reporter re

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread Peter Flanigan
I have these three NAs; http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811561 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811557 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811555 which do not appear to offer an explanation. So I emailed Chris (the tester) and received this bounce --

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Peter Flanigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would you suggest? I know that you feel strongly about these NA reports, but my personal view is that while having them may be annoying if your goal is perfection from CPAN Testers, the reality is that it really means

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:18:53PM +0100, Peter Flanigan wrote: > I have these three NAs; > http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811561 > http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811557 > http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/1811555 > > which do not appear to offer

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread Peter Flanigan
David Golden wrote: I care a lot more about the ones that *don't* pass... those are the ones that actually help me improve my code. Me to, which is why I would like to understand why the module didn't pass these three tests. -- Regards

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread Peter Flanigan
David Cantrell wrote: Looks like the NA is being generated because of this in Makefile.PL: my $found = 0; for (@INC) { if (-f catfile( $_, q(version.pm) )) { $found = 1; last } } exit 0 unless ($found); In which case I have misunderstood. I thought that "exit 0" from a Makefile.PL would

Re: Proposal: set AUTOMATED_TESTING to tester's ID

2008-07-08 Thread Kidney Bingos
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:09:34PM +0100, Peter Flanigan wrote: > > I was assuming that chris is a PAUSE id and obtained the email address > from the authors page on CPAN. I tried typing chris and CHRIS into the > textfield on that page and clicking the SEARCH button, but I received a > complet