in reply to CPAN mailing lists

The cpan-testers mailing list is deprecated, and I think it's deliberate that you can't subscribe to it - if you did, you'd get THOUSANDS of test reports every day. The infrastructure can't cope with people subscribing to that list any more.

If you want to discuss testing, then you want cpan-testers-discuss.

No, it's not abandoned.

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Re^2: CPAN mailing lists
by markus_b (Acolyte) on Feb 26, 2010 at 14:08 UTC

    But the cpantesters wiki explicitly recommends signing up with cpan-testers. This is this in error ?

    Tried to sign up with cpan-testers-discuss, but I get no confirmation email. Signing up with cpan-qa works, though.

    My emails to the fedback email (listmast@lists.perl.org) still come back with a server timeout.

    Markus

      Which page on the wiki recommends that? That information is out-of-date.

      And I just signed up to cpan-testers-discuss just fine by sending mail to cpan-testers-discuss-subscribe@perl.org. Perhaps your mail server is blocking something.

      And a quick google shows me that listmast@lists.perl.org has been not working for several years. Where on earth did you find it?

        In the meantime I got the permanent error back:

        Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
        
            cpan-testers-discuss-subscribe@lists.perl.org
        
        Technical details of permanent failure:
        The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720
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        Markus

        For me it looks like listmast@lists.perl.org is still official the feedback link today.

        You find it on lists.cpan.org in the menu on the left side, the fifthmost link from the top labelled 'Feedback'.

        It might well be that it has not been working since several years, but it is certainly still there, advertised on the main page for 'Feedback'.

        Googling the address I see that the problem is out there since at least 2007, so there is some abandonment around in the perl world.

        Markus