As predicted in the October Summary, the latest milestone for CPAN Testers came just before Christmas. On 22nd December to be exact, as can be seen on the Interesting Stats page of the CPAN Testers Statistics site. Once again, many thanks to all the testers who have help to contribute to the milestone.

Last month saw a number of changes, both major and minor, to the workings of CPAN Testers behind the scenes. As mentioned in the last post, some of these have had a striking effect on the ability to process more reports at a time. Last weekend actually saw us less than 24 hours behind a report being posted and appearing on the site. However, there is a caveat to that which I will come to in a moment. Having done so well to close the gap between reports being submitted and appearing, last weekend I took the opportunity to perform a major…