Re: Website lacks info about sending your first CPANtesters report

https://web.archive.org/web/20211003135843/http://cpanwiki.grango.org/ 
is a working snapshot. 
<https://web.archive.org/web/20211003135843/http://cpanwiki.grango.org/ 
is a working snapshot.>

It points to [email protected] for issues.

Meantime, perhaps the archive copy will help.


On 16-Sep-23 14:56, James E Keenan wrote:
> Friends of CPANtesters:
>
> I recently had a bug report about one of my CPAN distributions 
> experiencing test failures on Windows, an OS to which I have no 
> access. Once we discussed the problem, I accepted pull requests from 
> the reporter and this morning issued a new CPAN release.  I asked the 
> reporter if he could generate a new CPANtesters report on Windows to 
> that we could document the fix.
>
> The reporter apparently did not know how to become a CPANtester, so he 
> went to https://cpantesters.org/ (which I'll refer to here as the 
> "Home Page"), read the "Become a Tester" section, and clicked on the 
> the "CPAN Testers Wiki" link, which took him to 
> http://wiki.cpantesters.org/ ... which redirected to 
> http://cpanwiki.grango.org/ and displayed a "404 Page Not Found" page 
> from the Birmingham Perl Mongers web site (http:birmingham.pm.org). 
> (Reference: 
> https://github.com/jkeenan/file-copy-recursive-reduced/issues/7#issuecomment-1722238815)
>
> ISTR that, in the past, there was a page somewhere underneath 
> https://cpantesters.org/ which described how to use CPAN::Reporter, 
> App::cpanminus::Reporter and even a CPANPLUS variant to send reports 
> to the CPANtesters database.  I also recall that, at least when using 
> CPAN::Reporter, before generating your *first* ever CPANtesters 
> report, there was some procedure to get you "registered" which 
> resulted in the creation of ~/.cpanreporter/ and the creation of two 
> files in that hidden directory, 'metabase_id.json' and 'config.ini'.  
> But the details are hazy in my mind now -- and in any event I have 
> never configured CPAN test reporting on Windows.
>
> I cannot recall what other information might have been presented on 
> the "CPAN Testers Wiki," but at the very least we need to get 
> information up on the Home Page on how to get up-and-running with your 
> first CPANtesters report.  So my questions are:
>
> 1. What can we do to provide that "get up-and-running" information on 
> our web site?
>
> 2. What can we do to alleviate the 404?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan