Re^2: Help update the Phalanx 100

Don't SMOKE testers send an automated result back to CPAN? If they do, one could decrement for every SMOKE result for a given module ...

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Re^3: Help update the Phalanx 100 by Joost (Canon) on Dec 21, 2004 at 23:27 UTC
Don't SMOKE testers send an automated result back to CPAN? If they do, one could decrement for every SMOKE result for a given module ... Ehmm.. I send a CPAN testers result for every module I install with CPANPLUS, 90 % of which is for actual use (the rest is just to test some modules that people are having problems with on this site), so these should probably count. Massive smoke-testing shouldn't really influence the top-100 much anyway, since it would presumably make for about the same amount of downloads for each version of each module. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^3: Help update the Phalanx 100 by Anonymous Monk on Dec 22, 2004 at 10:52 UTC
Golly, then you'd end up with negative numbers. Remember you are given the downloads logs from one site only. CPAN testers download from one of the many CPAN mirrors. Maybe those logs could be used to write annoying pop-ups that will display "73% of the people who downloaded <the-module-you-just-downloaded> also like <some-other-module>".	[reply]


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