Jonathan Rockway wrote:
Anyway, I think most authors like the reports. Personally, it motivates
me to fix my modules when I know someone is actually trying to use them.
(Smokers are nice too because I can fix my modules before a real person
wastes their time trying to install my broken code :)
On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
(Smokers are nice too because I can fix my modules before a real
person
wastes their time trying to install my broken code :)
That reminds me: I recently learned about BuildBot, an open source
continuous integration system. What make
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 03:30 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I'm locked in correspondence with Marc now.
>
> His view: cpan-testers are incompetent, ego tripping, quasi-religious
> nuisances.
Solution: get a mail filter. If he doesn't want reports, he should
devnull them.
Anyway, I think most
On Dec 18, 2007 9:59 PM, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know how the false negative rates compare for cpan-tester
> smokers vs. CPAN::Reporter users? I've found the former to be
> enormously valuable for cross-platform testing (especially David
> Cantrell and Slaven Rezic), b
Michael G Schwern wrote:
As for the social problem, the BSD testers could try to help out with whatever
the problem is. On Marc's side he could ask for help instead of asking
everyone to turn off the immensely useful automated testing.
Not to excuse what Marc's automated response said but
On 19 Dec 2007, at 03:13, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Anyhow, what's clear is there is a problem with IO::AIO. It hasn't
been
addressed properly by the author. While it's frustrating to get a
constant
stream of "your shit is broke", his shit is indeed broke. This is a
clear
case of CPAN Test
On 19 Dec 2007, at 02:59, Chris Dolan wrote:
Presumably the false negative rate achieved by the best modules is
a measure of how noisy the smoking system is. Given that the
cleanest modules regularly get a <1% FAIL rate over many tens of
reports it's not a huge reach to suggest that any modu
chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 17:27:24 Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Someone (MLEHMANN) doesn't like smoking... That was a test report
>> generated by CPAN::Reporter.
>>
>> It hadn't previously occurred to me that test reports might cause
>> offence...
>
> Didn't you get a whole sle
On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 19 Dec 2007, at 02:05, chromatic wrote:
Sure - but I'd have expected that to be perceived as a specific
problem in an otherwise valuable system. It's not a rational
reason to
right off automated testing as a whole surely?
That depends o
On 19 Dec 2007, at 02:05, chromatic wrote:
Sure - but I'd have expected that to be perceived as a specific
problem in an otherwise valuable system. It's not a rational reason
to
right off automated testing as a whole surely?
That depends on the ratio of useless to useful results.
Presumabl
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 17:49:16 Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Sure - but I'd have expected that to be perceived as a specific
> problem in an otherwise valuable system. It's not a rational reason to
> right off automated testing as a whole surely?
That depends on the ratio of useless to useful res
On 19 Dec 2007, at 01:42, chromatic wrote:
It hadn't previously occurred to me that test reports might cause
offence...
Didn't you get a whole slew of them a while back where the problem
was that
that the reporter hadn't properly configured Windows to build
modules? How
about the one wher
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 17:27:24 Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Someone (MLEHMANN) doesn't like smoking... That was a test report
> generated by CPAN::Reporter.
>
> It hadn't previously occurred to me that test reports might cause
> offence...
Didn't you get a whole slew of them a while back where t
Someone (MLEHMANN) doesn't like smoking... That was a test report
generated by CPAN::Reporter.
It hadn't previously occurred to me that test reports might cause
offence...
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On Nov 22, 2007, at 3:47 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
Does the metric include modules used in the test suite? I write my
test
suites to deal gracefully with missing Test modules.
Most people don't, unfortunately.
Then CPAN testers will catch it.
I don't see how adding author test modules,
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