Re: Perl Magpie, a next-generation CPAN Testers reporting platform

Doug:

I just want to re-iterate what Ruth said: we want to work *together 
*with you /and /the community make CPT the rock solid, reliable tool 
that the community is used to. As a module author CPT is an invaluable 
tool to know how things perform in the "real-world" beyond my local machine.

There have been multiple conversations on IRC #cpantesters-discuss with 
people expressing concern and offering help for CPT. It's a very /well 
regarded /tool in the Perl community. Would you be amenable to a 
mini-meeting on IRC (or Zoom) prior to PTS to talk about the health and 
status of CPT as it stands today? It might be helpful to get everyone at 
least on the same page prior to PTS so we can maximize the in-person 
time to coming up with solutions.

I setup remote monitoring of CPT using Nagios 
<https://www.perturb.org/nagios/vshell/services.php?host_filter=cpantesters.org> 
(user/pass: readonly) so the community would have some historical 
reporting about CPT's uptime. If I check it right now I can see that the 
API has been down for the last four hours. Is there is anything I can do 
short term to help with the system, I'd be happy to donate some of my time.

I am the Senior System Administrator for DirectLink. I've been doing 
Linux system administration for 20+ years now. If there is anything I 
can do on the server side to help take some of the burden off of you 
please let me know. I would be happy to help with system tasks. I run 
our local OSS mirror: https://mirror.web-ster.com/. I can also spin up 
some compute VMs for CPT if there is need for that. There was also some 
discussion about getting some VMs donated by the FSF as well.

If you're open to some help my SSH key is: ssh-ed25519 
AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOwvHmHSRjm3i6d1O5Se9RuiV9Te3OCihJuScS1IV1zX 
[email protected]

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 4/6/2025 11:45 AM, Ruth Holloway wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Thank you so much for your well-thought-out response in this thread.
>
> The Perl Magpie team--at the moment--is composed of Scott Baker and 
> myself; we were riffing on IRC about how to provide more consistent 
> access to test results, and the idea for the Magpie running in 
> parallel to the existing system as a source of test results was born.  
> There's been some prototyping done, with some happy successes, but it 
> is by no means a production-ready product.  Scott had shown off those 
> results in the IRC channel, and there were a few folks who made 
> suggestions, and a few offers of assistance. That's the history, as it 
> stands now.
>
> [snipped]