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On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:39:45 -0400, James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> wrote: > You can find data from a test run of the "CPAN-river-top-1000" against > perl-5.27.11 here: > > http://thenceforward.net/perl/misc/cpan-river-1000-perl-5.27-master.psv.gz I filtered all lines that have at least one FAIL, and I filtered the repeating columns to get a more comprehensive list: https://tux.nl/Files/cpan-river-1000-fail-5.27.11.csv https://tux.nl/Files/cpan-river-1000-fail-5.27.11.xlsx > The file above presents the data in the same format which I used for > 5.27.6 and 5.27.7 in November and December 2017. What is essentially > the same data is presented in a slightly different format here: > > http://thenceforward.net/perl/misc/xformat-cpan-river-1000-perl-CPAN-river-1000: > failures as of perl-5.27.105.27-master.psv.gz > > The attachment, 'changes-5.27.10-to-5.27.11.csv', presents another > subset of the data set found at the second link above. It presents > results from just the last two monthly releases for those distributions > which either (a) had a change of grade between 5.27.10 and 5.27.11; or > (b) received a grade other than 'PASS' in 5.27.11. > > A large number of the distributions listed in > changes-5.27.10-to-5.27.11.csv have an 'x' in the final column, meaning > that when I ran my test-against-dev program earlier this morning, > 'cpanm' bailed out before being able to test that distribution. That > generally happens when an upstream prerequisite has a build or test > failure, fails to install, and causes 'cpanm' to bail when it comes to > the prerequisite's reverse dependency. (If I were using 'cpan' rather > than 'cpanm', this would be logged as a DISCARD in the > .cpanreporter/reports-sent.db file; thanks to Slaven for calling my > attention to that.) > > This month, many of those 'x' distributions were affected by problems > with File-Copy-Recursive. Version 0.41 of that distribution was > released two days ago, but failed to specify one dependency. The author > has subsequently corrected that omission and has issued version 0.42 -- > but that didn't take place until after my test-against-dev program had > run. Many distributions in the CPAN river top 1000 are dependent on > File-Copy-Recursive, so they were not reached when test-against-dev ran. > Now that FCR 0.42 has been released, I'm going to retry the > distributions that were graded 'x'. > > Some of the distributions in changes-5.27.10-to-5.27.11.csv are > previously known failures. Dave Mitchell surveyed these on this list > last month: > https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250135.html > > Anyone who wishes to follow up on this data or help me further develop > analyses like this should contact me. This will be the final report of > this data in the 5.27.* development cycle. I hope to begin anew, > covering a larger subset of the CPAN river, once 5.29.0 is released. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous