Re: "find a tester" not working?

[email protected] (Doug Bell) Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:18:34 -0500
Newsgroups	perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Yep, looks like it's broken. Probably something I did regarding the way reports are processed now.

Until I can get it fixed, or get a replacement, probably the best way to find this information is by using the api.cpantesters.org <http://api.cpantesters.org/>: Each report now has the reporter's information (name and e-mail address) stored inside. Install the "jq" program[1], and do: `curl http://api.cpantesters.org/v3/report/<guid> | jq '.reporter'`. This is, effectively, what the Find a Tester tool does. The `jq` program is optional, but then it means you have to look for the "reporter" section of the report, to find the "email" field.

There are a couple options for future development that would fix this problem:

1. Fix the current Find a Tester.
2. The API needs a way to look up testers, with the goal being for testers to be able to see lists of all the reports they've submitted. Testers are distinguished by e-mail address, but the API could allow for a search by name (but there needs to be protections against misuse and spam).
3. Create a new website. My goal here is still that the new site can be used to message testers directly without requiring them to expose their e-mail address to everyone.
4. Give access to a group of people to handle support requests like this by looking at the database. I wrote Yancy[2] basically for this purpose: Looking at the CPAN Testers database from a website and editing things inside. This is how I fix tester information now, and how I looked up the e-mails of these two testers. Yancy isn't perfect, the CPAN Testers database is huge and the APIs Yancy uses aren't fast enough, but it's a start.

[1]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ <https://stedolan.github.io/jq/> also available in most package managers
[2]: http://metacpan.org/pod/Yancy <http://metacpan.org/pod/Yancy>


Doug Bell
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> On Jun 9, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm trying to fetch the author for both reports below:
> 
> https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/aa4f5cac-6e3a-1014-a899-817a51db77ab <https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/aa4f5cac-6e3a-1014-a899-817a51db77ab>
> https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/1de885b4-687c-11e8-a021-da16591eefd3 <https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/1de885b4-687c-11e8-a021-da16591eefd3>
> 
> At http://stats.cpantesters.org/cgi-bin/cpanmail.cgi <http://stats.cpantesters.org/cgi-bin/cpanmail.cgi> and both are giving the message "Sorry, we were unable to retrieve that ID/GUID."
> 
> I'm using as ID the string right after the last slash (e.g. "1de885b4-687c-11e8-a021-da16591eefd3").
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alceu
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