July 2010 Archives

CPAN Testers 2.0 and the metabase-relayd

So CPAN Testers 2.0 was announced and further here.

Big kudos to all concerned

When I met David Golden and Ricardo Signes at the Birmingham QA Hackathon in 2009 and discussions were happening about Metabase and how submissions would be made to it, I'd expressed concern about the weight of the dependencies that would be required to make Metabase submissions.

I came up with the idea of a Metabase relay server, something that would act as an intermediate between …

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user-pic System administrator, part-time Perl hacker, full-time POE [poe.perl.org] evangelist. One day he will be made to pay for his crimes. He has some modules on CPAN [cpan.org]. They may or may not be useful