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From:
Serguei Trouchelle
Date:
August 17, 2010 14:06
Subject:
Re: Casual testers
Message ID:
4C6AF9D7.5040806@cpan.org
David Golden wrote:
>> I install Test::Reporter on any machine I administer, so that as I
>> install perl modules, their success or failure gets reported. Now I'm
>> getting emails asking me to use HTTP. I'm trying to follow them, but
>> am hitting roadblocks, and am wondering why I'm jumping through hoops
>> to fix what seemed to be working fine from my perspective.
> Hi, yary. Thanks for writing with your questions. The switchover to
> HTTP based submission was prompted by the perl.org administrators, who
> were getting nearly half a million test reports by email -- accounting
> for about 99% of monthly email traffic to perl.org mailing lists.
>
> Since more and more people were having trouble with email submission
> due to restrictive firewalls and ISP's, the second generation
> transport is HTTP.
>
> Unfortunately, due to the haste of the switch and the limited
> volunteer time to write documentation and code to automate the
> conversion, there is still a good deal of manual work to do.
Just a thought about default behavior.
Wouldn't it be better if Test::Reporter would use File transport by default? T::R::T::File itself can print some message
offering to install T::R::T::Metabase and set it up.
I also think of failover mechanism, which can be implemented using T::R::T::File as a backup transport, when there's
some problem with submission to Metabase.
--
Serguei Trouchelle
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