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  • Matthew Persico commented on On the eve of CPAN Testers

    So where can I RTFM on how to set up a smoker?

  • Aristotle commented on On the eve of CPAN Testers

    I’m not sure, Matthew. I haven’t kept up with the topic in a couple of years so I only have vague memories to go off that I’d have to refresh. One thing I found just now is CPAN::Reporter::Smoker. I seem to remember there being multiple turnkey solutions on CPAN by different people (basically a few of the most prolific testers codifying their own setups), but I can’t find more than that one right now.

  • Aristotle commented on On the eve of CPAN Testers

    (There are, of course, CPAN::Reporter itself for CPAN.pm and cpanm-reporter for cpanminus, whereby you can send reports for the day-to-day module installing that you do manually. But those are missing the endless loop of a dedicated CPAN testing rig, which would poll PAUSE uploads and download and test them as they come in. Which needs some extra code to deal with hung installers, downtimes at CPAN Testers, etc etc – all the robustness stuff you’d want in an automated setup.)

  • kid51 commented on On the eve of CPAN Testers
    So where can I RTFM on how to set up a smoker?

    cpan Task::CPAN::Reporter

  • Aristotle commented on Good bye PrePAN

    That’s a reasonable suggestion, but also feels like it’s missing the point in a way.

    My sense is that whoever ran the site lost interest in keeping it online, and the registration lapsing was just a symptom of that. Moving the registration to TPF would have addressed the symptom but not the real problem, which would be that there was not enough interest to even hand off the site to someone else properly (which I can understand – it takes care and effort, at a time when you can least be bothered).

    Now the site does appear to have been operational right up to the point th…

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