in reply to [OT] cpantesters.org is playing hard to get.

I'm seeking confirmation that it's "not just me" that's having trouble.

It's not just you. It's also not just individual reports - the main pages for a dist on www and on matrix have been returning cached results for me. eg. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI+4.55 is showing a page from over 2 weeks ago.

I think it's mostly preaction who is looking after it these days but as he doesn't visit here any more you would need to get in touch via some other channel. He's probably aware already, TBF and busy hand-holding a database rebuild or somesuch.

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by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2023 at 10:47 UTC
    He's probably aware already, TBF and busy hand-holding a database rebuild or somesuch.

    Whoever (if anyone) is trying to fix it is obviously having one helluvan experience.
    It has now been at least 5 days (120 hours) since the site went down, and those reports are still inaccessible.

    The good news is that I haven't received a single FAIL report from cpantesters in that period. (Always look on the bright side ;-)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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        Perhaps of interest Enlightened Perl Organisation will close

        Following the links I see that EPO have fully paid for the cpantesters.org servers until October 2023. Money well spent ??

        Although I don't see cpantesters as being mission-critical, I would prefer that they continue to exist ... but not if they're going to email me links that can't be reached in 8+ days.
        Is it known for sure whether anything is actually being done to repair this problem with the server ?

        Cheers,
        Rob
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      The good news is that I haven't received a single FAIL report

      Interestingly, the tests are going in OK (at least partially) and the MetaCPAN totals in the sidebar are increasing. Also, and even more encouragingly, fast-matrix is back having been out of action for months. I'd given up checking it TBH, so don't know when it came back but you can use it now if you are interested in the current numbers eg: http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI which as I type lists the last report time as 2023-03-01 08:48 GMT (less than 3 hours ago). Also checked one of my own recent releases and that has a test result from just 11 mins ago.

      The web front-ends to cpantesters.org are still having problems however. This extends to almost-static sites like blog.cpantesters.org and iheart.cpantesters.org so it rather suggests that it is at least partially the front-end hosting infrastructure which is creaking.

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        What Bad Things happen when CPAN testers ceases to exist?

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