Re: Measuring water quality of the CPAN river

2015-05-11 Thread Neil Bowers
> I think we could be considering a number of dimensions. Brainstorming: > > * fails tests now – i.e. blocking automated dep installations – this is your > existing metric > * possibly an OS-specific variation of the above > * stability over time – possibly your existing metric, but taking last

Re: Measuring water quality of the CPAN river

2015-05-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 11 May 2015 at 19:20, Neil Bowers wrote: > look at 2 or more CPAN Testers fails where the only difference is an > upriver version number. my point didn't pertain to upriver versions changing, but the observation that upriver modules can have buggy code that is only broken on certain architec

Re: Measuring water quality of the CPAN river

2015-05-11 Thread Neil Bowers
> On 11 May 2015, at 01:47, Kent Fredric wrote: > So the quality of a dist could be measured indirectly by the failure rate of > its dependents. This was kind of the basis of the “River Smoker” idea that Tux and and I discussed late on the last day of the QAH: http://neilb.org/2015/04/