[meta: I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ, but I could not get to mail-archive.com to search the group's archive]
Can one challenge the result of a CPAN-testers test result? If so, how? I see several erroneous FAIL reports for modules of mine, and I think it's unfair that it appears as though my module(s) have failures or outstanding bugs. Here's an example: report 1522795, http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1522795.html About 2/3 of the way down in the report, there are the following lines: > [MSG] [Mon May 26 01:20:29 2008] Ok, not sending test report > [ERROR] [Mon May 26 01:20:32 2008] MAKE failed: cp lib/Regexp/Common/time.pm > blib/lib/Regexp/Common/time.pm > Manifying blib/man3/Regexp::Common::time.3 > /home/cpan/perl562/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL Build > Too early to specify a build action 'Build'. Do 'Build Build' instead. > gmake: *** [Build] Error 2 On the first line above, we see that the tester is not sending a test report to the author (me). Why? On the fourth line above, we see that the tester's script is incorrectly invoking Build.PL. Why? So far as I can tell, I have no way of contacting the tester who generated this report. The top of the report simply says: > From: chris > Date: May 25, 2008 17:20 > Subject: FAIL Regexp-Common-time-0.03 i386-netbsd-thread-multi-64int 3.1 Who is "chris", and how do I contact him or her? Here's another example: test report 1522754, http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1522754.html > /Volumes/Media/smoke/perl562/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL > Build > Can't locate Module/Build.pm in @INC (@INC contains: [deleted by eric]) at > Build.PL line 3. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Build.PL line 3. > make: *** [Build] Error 2 > > > MISSING PREREQUISITES: > > It was observed that the test suite seem to fail without these modules: > > Module::Build > > As such, adding the prerequisite module(s) to 'PREREQ_PM' in your > Makefile.PL should solve this problem. For example: The test suite not only incorrectly invoked Build.PL, it failed because Module::Build is not installed, and then "helpfully" tells me how to update Makefile.PL so as to avoid the problem! How ridiculous! (My modules include both Build.PL and Makefile.PL, so users can have a choice about how to install). The sad thing is that these erroneous test results make it appear as though my module has unresolved problems. I've been searching the web for the past hour or two, and I can find no information about how to contest a cpan-testers result, or to get an erroneous FAIL result removed from my module's record. Can anyone help? Thanks, Eric Roode
