Re: CPANtesters reports failing to get into metabase

19. 02. 2025. u 12:51, James E Keenan piše:

> The CPANtesters database is having considerable problems receiving
> test reports.  Over the past few days I have noticed that reports I
> manually generate (via Task::CPAN::Reporter) often fail to enter the
> Metabase. Those reports usually contain statements like these:
> #####
> [...]
> fact submission failed: No healthy backends at
> /home/jkeenan/testing/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.41.9/Metabase/Client/Simple.pm
> line 129.
> [...]
> This is unfortunate, because on Feb 20 we are scheduled for a monthly
> development release and there appears to have been recent
> "blead-breaks-CPAN" changes.
>
> Can you investigate?  Thank you very much.

The situation used to be worse some months ago. Currently I observe only
shorter outages (less than ten minutes), but usually several times a day.

Having a retry loop around the sender script will probably help (maybe
it does not have to be as sophisticated as mine:
https://github.com/eserte/srezic-misc/blob/master/scripts/send_tr_reports.pl
).

Regards,
     Slaven