[Omaha.pm] Fwd: Quality of CPAN modules, CPAN::Reporter

[Jay Hannah]

I'm broadly familiar with rt.cpan.org, but I'm not up to speed on all  
the other quality / smoke / ratings systems. Is anyone else?

j


Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab at gmail.com>
> Date: September 25, 2006 6:41:12 AM CDT
> To: "PM Groups" <pm_groups at pm.org>
> Subject: [pm_groups] Quality of CPAN modules, CPAN::Reporter
>
> Hi,
> I am not sure if all the pm lists are suitable for advancing specific
> Perl and CPAN realted issues. On Israel.pm this seems to be  
> acceptable.
> (I accept it anyway :-) I have justs sent the following to our  
> mailing list.
> If you feel it suitable, plase forward to your mailing list.
>   Gabor
>   ----------------------------------------- cut here
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> In my Perl courses people always ask me about the quality of the
> CPAN modules. One of the key things I am pointing at is CPAN Testers
> http://testers.cpan.org/
>
> It's a great resource for both module authors and module users.
>
> The biggest problem with it was so far that relatively few people  
> sent in
> reports, partially because CPANPLUS was required for that.
>
> Recently I started to use CPAN::Reporter
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Reporter/
> that works with the regular CPAN.pm module. Once installed it
> will send success and failure report on each one of the modules you  
> install.
>
> That is with an initial minor work - installing CPAN::Reporter -  
> you will be
> sending test reports and help the effort of making CPAN a better  
> place.
>
> You can watch the queue of the incoming test reports here:
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/
> and check that your test reports are showing up a few minutes
> after you sent them.
>
> If anyone needs help setting it up, just post a note here or here
> http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/CPAN-Reporter
>
> Gabor