Re: Please, smokers, set AUTOMATED_TESTING=1

On 9/17/24 15:58, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> Please please please, could everyone running automated smokers, set 
> AUTOMATED_TESTING=1 in the environment? As per the Lancaster Consensus, 
> this is a signal to the installer that no human is behind the 
> installation, and most likely a test report will be generated, so it 
> allows the installation to enable different or more verbose diagnostics.
> 
> https://xdg.me/the-annotated-lancaster-consensus/ 
> <https://xdg.me/the-annotated-lancaster-consensus/>
> 
> I have received some perplexing failure reports lately which would be 
> much easier to debug if AUTOMATED_TESTING=1 was set, as I provide a lot 
> of data dumps in the test output when this value is set. As it is I am 
> unable to determine what particular combination of environment in the 
> smoker is resulting in these failures, so I am unable to fix them.
> 
> thank you,
> 
> a CPAN author
> -ether
> 

Could you provide URLs to a couple of such reports that would have been 
more helpful if that envvar had been set?

I ask because I have never consciously set that envvar and I'd like to 
know if the manually-triggered reports I do generate are adequate.

Thanks.
jimk