Perhaps of interest Enlightened Perl Organisation will close
Following the links I see that EPO have fully paid for the cpantesters.org servers until October 2023. Money well spent ??
Although I don't see cpantesters as being mission-critical, I would prefer that they continue to exist ... but not if they're going to email me links that can't be reached in 8+ days.
Is it known for sure whether anything is actually being done to repair this problem with the server ?
Cheers,
Rob
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The good news is that I haven't received a single FAIL report
Interestingly, the tests are going in OK (at least partially) and the MetaCPAN totals in the sidebar are increasing. Also, and even more encouragingly, fast-matrix is back having been out of action for months. I'd given up checking it TBH, so don't know when it came back but you can use it now if you are interested in the current numbers eg: http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI which as I type lists the last report time as 2023-03-01 08:48 GMT (less than 3 hours ago). Also checked one of my own recent releases and that has a test result from just 11 mins ago.
The web front-ends to cpantesters.org are still having problems however. This extends to almost-static sites like blog.cpantesters.org and iheart.cpantesters.org so it rather suggests that it is at least partially the front-end hosting infrastructure which is creaking.
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- Bad things for users
- When an installation fails for the user they have no idea whether this is their problem alone or a systematic problem with the dist
- When a newer version is released the user is unaware of any problems there might be with it before downloading/installing
- If there is a systematic problem with the current version the user has no reference as to which other versions are problem-free
- Bad things for authors
- No way to tell if a manual bug report received for any given platform is unique to that user
- No way to tell if a just-released dist has a glaring error (until hopefully manually notified by someone much later)
- Having to go back-and-forth with a bug reporter to get case info rather than having the full smoke tester failure available at a single click
- No way to tell if a dependency of their code has a usable current version or if the last n versions are all usable, etc.
- Bad things for perl
- Another important piece of infrastructure gone making it harder than it used to be for everyone to use the language (see also: AnnoCPAN, CPAN Ratings, etc.)
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- It will be the module author's job to test everything in all the environments.
- Great shame for Perl.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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I concur with what ++choroba wrote in answer to
"... when CPAN testers ceases to exist?".
The ending of EPO does not necessarily mean the end of CPAN Testers.
A better question might have been "... if CPAN testers ceases to exist?".
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