CPAN Testers

January ended up being quite a productive month, with several issues with websites getting sorted finally.

Next up was the /var/www/users/cpan_testers/index.html

Happy New Year to all. Last year had its ups and downs, so here's hoping that 2012 sees a much more settled year :)

Thankfully 2012 has started on a much brighter note, in part thanks to our new hosting company, Bytemark, who have been absolute stars with …

November turned into a rather more traumatic month than I would have liked. It didn't start well with the old hosting company issuing us a invoice for 1 year's hosting, which we had previously cancelled due to their appalling service regards our loss of data. They now claim we still owe them a month, regardless of the month outage we suffered due to their incompetence and failure to replace our mirrored HDD before the second one failed. I'm now seeking compensation, but I'm not hopefully it'll get very far.

Recently Andreas alerted me to a problem with the SQLite database used to store the basic metadata for the CPAN Testers statistical database, aka cpanstats. On reading the database, for some queries an error message is now being returned; "database disk image is malformed". It's unclear where the error has occurred, but it seems to have been something that has only surfaced recently.

October was a rather quiet month publicly, but behind the scenes there has been a number of fixes, improvements and discussions.