Re: [Fwd: FAIL Time-HiRes-1.9708 x86_64-linux-thread-multi 2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen]

2007-11-14 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
On 15/11/2007, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we need a way to mark a test or or a set of tests as 'can fail due > to load, bad randomness, and other fluctuating factors, please try at > least N times (with random sleeps in between) before giving up'? > > This goes for all of

Re: New proposed CPANTS metric: prereq_matches_use

2007-11-14 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:19 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: So if you use any module from the CPAN, you should list it explicitly, not imply it via the main module of its containing distro. Yes, exactly. --- Matisse Enzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ww

Re: Ownership rot in the Phalanx 100 page

2007-11-14 Thread Andy Lester
I imagine that there are other modules in the same boat. Perhaps a better solution is to avoid the ego points, drop the author link, and just point to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-SSLeay/ instead. You wanna take care of that maintenance task? My plate is plenty full. -- Andy Lester =>

Ownership rot in the Phalanx 100 page

2007-11-14 Thread David Landgren
I just fielded a question addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking about "10 essential Perl modules every programmer should know about". In the reply, I mentioned in passing the Phalanx 100 http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/100/ I took another look at it, and noticed that in the time since it was pub