First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

Hello CPAN Testers,

Today I managed to set up a CPAN Smoke tester running on Windows Server
2016  and Strawberry Perl 5.28.0  \o/  YAY!!!, but I did hit a few walls
trying to get there.

First I want to mention that the  CPAN Testers
<https://qa.perl.org/cpan-testers/> page is concise and to the point. This
page lead me to the CPAN Testers WIKI <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/> from
which I went on to learn more about CPAN Testing at the  Quick Start
<http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart> page.

Please Note that I am using Google cloud to setup window server instances.

In my first attempt, I installed CPAN::Reporter but had run into an issue
where I was unable to install Data::UUID module  (
https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/28 )
this instance was then deleted due to the fact that I was not able to  RDP
into the box ( The instance was 1 cpu and 3.3 gig ram server ).

In my second attempt, I built another server ( with the same specs as the
first attempt )  but this time I install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and had the
c:\tmp workaround setup that was noted in  (
https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/24 ). I started the
CPAN::Reporter::Smoker program but noticed that I didn't have any test
results sent to metabase ( http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt -
Thanks to Jim Keenan for this link and the troubleshooting help ). I
didn't setup my metabase-profile so I found a link to install
Task-CPAN-Reporter where I could install all of CPAN::Reporter dependencies
and setup my metabase-profile afterwards. while setting up my
metabase-profile it turns out I didn't have the proper permission settings
on the CPAN directory (
https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/28d88611e9abae283ccddf39a199832d ). after
resolving my metabase configuration I was able to start  a test install of
ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
<https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/b3c9671efc2ab51173e56d817e8d817e>  and
begin the Smoker process again.

Everything was working just fine until I see that my server had hung for
some reason, I avoided contacting Google for support and moved forward with
upgrading the hardware to a 2 CPU and 5.5 Gig ram server.  Also I sometimes
have to go to the command prompt and press the enter key while a make is
running ( sometimes it just hangs there )

Can anyone in this list recommended specs for a Windows server  for CPAN
Testing?

Any pointers or tips on how I could have done this better I greatly
appreciate it.


Charlie Gonzalez
(E) [email protected]
Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>