Re: Display Name in Test Reports

Thanks! I've sent an email to the admin@ address.

Is this something that can be put on the wiki.cpantesters.org (assuming
that wiki.cpantesters.org is only temporarily down - right now it is giving
a connection reset error)?

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Doug Bell <[email protected]> wrote:

> CPAN Testers gets your name when your client gets an error saying that
> your Metabase GUID does not exist, but from there, it stays what it was.
> So, there are two ways:
>
> 1. Create a new profile. Sub-optimal, for the reasons you said.
> 2. Ask me. Send me a private e-mail ([email protected]) including
> your metabase_id.json (which should have your GUID in it, the thing that I
> need). I can then update your information to whatever you'd like.
>
> Part 2 could be automated in the future. But, for now, this is easiest.
>
> I suspect there is also a way to update Metabase profiles, but I'm not
> sure if any client implements it, and I am fairly certain that my
> replacement Metabase server does not do that correctly. So, if anyone has
> some insight on how to update a Metabase profile, I can fix my server to
> make sure it works correctly.
>
> Doug Bell
> [email protected]
>
>
>
> On May 29, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Joelle Maslak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My old name is still showing up in CPAN testers reports I'm submitting (I
> can see it in log.txt from cpantesters.org, for instance).
>
> I don't want this.
>
> My metabase_id.json file has been manually edited to reflect my name
> instead of the old one, but I didn't generate a new metabase profile - this
> is the same profile I've been using since 2015. I'd love to keep the same
> profile, as I've submitted many tests under it. While I'd love to change
> history, really what I'm asking is at least new reports should show my
> current name.
>
> Where does cpantesters.org get my name from? Do I just need to generate a
> new metabase profile, or am I missing changing something to get the name on
> the old profile to change?
>
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