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in thread CPAN module versioning for slight changes

Um, what a weird thing to say, cpantesters is a volunteer organization

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Re^6: CPAN module versioning for slight changes
by u65 (Chaplain) on Jan 05, 2016 at 12:08 UTC

    One then shouldn't burden them knowingly and unnecessarily.

      One then shouldn't burden them knowingly and unnecessarily.

      You do realize you are calling uploading a distro to CPAN a burden

      To fix a mistake, you upload a new version

      That is only way to fix a mistake

      The volunteers will test this new version automatically

      There is no way to tell testers, you don't have to test this one, its was a stupid mistake of mine

      The volunteers do what they chose to do, some test everything hourly, some daily, some test dev versions only, some test once a week

      Its a burden they take on voluntarily

      They're not stupid either, they won't let tests run for half an hour

Re^6: CPAN module versioning for slight changes
by stevieb (Canon) on Jan 08, 2016 at 01:34 UTC

    Unless you were born yesterday, "volunteer" personal time is one thing, but in your house, would you volunteer your gas, electricity, time fixing equipment, time upgrading equipment for free for hundreds of thousands of requests per day?

    It costs money. Real money. If you still don't get it, let me cook 256k turkeys in your oven, every single day, for free, while you maintain it all, while you don't have any time to do a day job that pays.