Re^3: The chicken and the egg (or how do I pass the module test)

CPANPLUS based smoke testers will only notify the module author of a FAIL if they detect that this is the first time it has failed.

They do this by retrieving a yml file from http://cpantesters.perl.org

What this means in practise, is that the first CPAN Tester to report a FAIL might not send a copy of the report to the author and then subsequent testers don't either.

The default behaviour of Test::Reporter is to send email via Net::SMTP direct to the appropriate server for 'cpan-testers@perl.org', which won't relay for authors' email addresses. ( May be will in they are a @cpan.org redirector (?) ).

Oh well. Good work anyways.

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Re^4: The chicken and the egg (or how do I pass the module test) by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2007 at 10:09 UTC
CPANPLUS based smoke testers will only notify the module author of a FAIL if they detect that this is the first time it has failed. For me, I like to get every fail report, especially for distributions like Tk where things like different window managers may cause different fail reports. The fail reports on nntp.perl.org do not have a complete From: address, so there's no possibility for me to ask the tester for more information. I think CPAN::Reporter always uses the @cpan.org address of the author, so there usually no problem here.	[reply]

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Re^4: The chicken and the egg (or how do I pass the module test)
by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2007 at 10:09 UTC

CPANPLUS based smoke testers will only notify the module author of a FAIL if they detect that this is the first time it has failed.

I think CPAN::Reporter always uses the @cpan.org address of the author, so there usually no problem here.

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