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From:
Andreas Koenig
Date:
August 3, 2016 18:02
Subject:
Re: Smoke-It branch?
Message ID:
877fbxd92y.fsf@k85.linux.bogus
>>>>> On 3 Aug 2016 16:42:41 -0000, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> said:

  > Todd Rinaldo wrote:
 >> I know over the years, some work has been done to pre-test certain perl
 >> builds against CPAN to see how it succeeds. Assuming this is true, can
 >> anyone tell me more about how this was done? If it was done, was it
 >> somehow reported to CPAN testers? Would they want the data collected?

  > Slaven Rezic has the ability to do this.  You could ask him how he
  > does it (or ask him to do it).

I also occasionally help with such requests. See
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233698.html
for example.

It is extra work, one has to turn off the normal infrastructure because
the CPAN authors/maintainers can not be bothered with what-if
experiments.

-- 
andreas

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