For several years I've been using a shell script that runs once a day from a cron job, and automagically subscribes me to the RSS feeds that rt.cpan creates for my modules. That means that whenever I release a new module, within a day or two I'll be subscribed to its bug reports, and within another day or so I'll start getting bug reports automatically emailed to me.
At some point RT got upgraded and my script broke. When I became aware of it, I fixed it, and I also put it on github. I hope you fin…
My first job was as a bus conductor, and my second one was as a student trainee in an engineering company - proper engineering, with production lines, big machines, hot things, and "danger of death" notices on equipment. In both of these, safety was an important concern, and especially in the second one it was drilled in to me that safety and quality are closely related and arise from systems, not merely from individual endeavour. While I never completed my degree in manufacturing/systems engineering (I dropped out because I was fed up after too many years in the classroom) I still retain…
At work I recently set up a Jenkins instance to run all our tests whenever someone pushes changes to the master branch of our git repo. And, after changing some stuff in our code that made the perl debugger cry*, I added Devel::Cover to the mix. So now, Jenkins not only notifies us by email whenever someone is naughty and makes the tests fail, it also generates a lovely report of how much of our code is actually tested.
Naturally, the first thing I looked at was how well-covered our test…
Why anyone would want to spider CPANdeps is beyond me, but a load of idiots in the Ukraine do want to, and their bot, as well as ignoring robots.txt (just like all the other search engines in the entire world, it seems) sends requests as fast as it can. All the timeouts and the errors about CPANdeps running out of database connections must mean they get some really high quality data.
All fixed though:
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 213.186.96.0/19 -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 212.113.32.0/19 -j DROP
If this inconveniences any Ukrainian perl hackers, then I apo…
CPANdeps has for ages had links to each distribution's bug tracker. Trouble is, it always just linked to rt.cpan. Lots of people don't use that any more, preferring to, for example, use the one that github creates for each repository hosted there. META.yml (and META.json) have links to those.
Ben Bullock provided a patch to extract the info from the META files, and I applied it a few moments ago. There are quite a few different ways it can be specified, and in some places META.yml and META.json files have different data structures, so we may have mis…
I'm in yur test resultz analyzn yr failz