[SOLVED] Why do some modules not get tested

sanbeg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've recently started uploading modules to CPAN. Usually, one I upload a module it starts running tests fairly quickly, and I'd start seeing reports after an hour or so.

I updated two modules about two weeks ago, and so far I haven't seen a test report on either of those. These were fairly minor updates; earlier versions had regular test reports.

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Re: Why do some modules not get tested by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 07, 2012 at 18:28 UTC
The CPAN testers website is having problems at the moment. Normal service is expected to resume in a couple of weeks. http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/152 Slaven Rezic and Andreas Koenig have set up an interim service. Here are the results for those two distributions: http://217.199.168.174/cgi-bin/cpantestersmatrix.pl?dist=Directory-Iterator-PP http://217.199.168.174/cgi-bin/cpantestersmatrix.pl?dist=Directory-Iterator-XS `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re: Why do some modules not get tested by bulk88 (Priest) on Nov 08, 2012 at 03:38 UTC
As tobyink said, there are big problems with the cpantesters website right now. Also see http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/. I am waiting for reports myself.	[reply]
Re: Why do some modules not get tested by mje (Curate) on Nov 08, 2012 at 16:13 UTC
The above answers are probably what you are looking for but I just thought I'd let you know of a few more. Some modules don't receive smoke reports from automated smokers because they are black listed. I'm not smoking right now but I had a list of black listed modules for various reasons - tests took way too long, downloaded loads of stuff, prompted without using prompt etc Some automated testers abort a test if it takes longer than some time - assuming the test has hung.	[reply]