32 messages in org.perl.cpan-testers-discussRe: The relation between CPAN Testers...
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Gabor SzaboSep 4, 2008 7:35 am 
Greg Sabino MullaneSep 4, 2008 8:29 am 
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Subject:Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)Actions...
From:David Cantrell (dav@cantrell.org.uk)
Date:Sep 4, 2008 6:39:44 am
List:org.perl.cpan-testers-discuss

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:09:56PM -0400, David Golden wrote:

But I've never heard a single complaint about a bogus PASS report

I suspect a lot of that is because authors look at the subject line and think "oh good, my code works on Irix, aren't I clever!" and don't actually read it. I know that *I* never bothered reading PASSes that I got.

most of the false positives that provoke complaint are toolchain issues during PL or make/Build.

I've dealt with these by thanking the author for uploading his excellent test suite for Test::More/Tk/OpenBSD or whatever it was that was really "at fault". With a smiley. It seems to go down pretty well.

-- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice