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

That time works for me.

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 4/17/25 8:24 AM, Ruth Holloway wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I can absolutely set up a meet-up time for us, and anyone else who 
> wants to come by to help.  Scott's in the Pacific TZ, and I'm in 
> Eastern, so perhaps one afternoon?  Other than a TPRF Board meeting 
> Thursday morning, I'm free all week.
>
> I'll propose Wednesday at 3 PM America/New_York (Noon on the Pacific 
> coast, 1900 UTC) for a Zoom call.  Does that work for y'all?  I'll set 
> up a link and post it here and on the IRC, if so; I've got a paid account.
>
> --Ruth
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, at 23:51, Doug Bell wrote:
>> I can get y'all set up in the CPAN Testers GitHub organization if you 
>> send the GitHub ID I should use for that. Most/all of the current 
>> development happens there and is deployed from Rexfiles in the 
>> individual repos. I'll make sure I haven't left any in-progress dev 
>> on my laptop here.
>>
>> Those deployments use SSH, so I can set those accounts up tomorrow. I 
>> have Scott's SSH key already, so I'll need Ruth's if she also wants 
>> one. It's not a necessity, but it would increase coverage of folks 
>> who can poke the thing when something's wrong.
>>
>> In general, I don't need SSH for anything outside of deployment and 
>> debugging. It's all test-driven development with locally-built SQLite 
>> databases to help ensure database portability in the hope of a 
>> Postgres migration. Likely we can figure out some PR/merging 
>> processes, as I personally like having someone else give my code a 
>> look-over to keep myself accountable (and spread the blame for crashes ;)
>>
>> If we can adapt anything y'all have already done to the Mojolicious 
>> frontend app (https://github.com/cpan-testers/cpantesters-web 
>> <https://github.com/cpan-testers/cpantesters-web>), I think it'd be 
>> worth it: The UI in there right now is a bare-bones Bootstrap 4 setup 
>> with basically no actual style (though I was experimenting with Web 
>> Components for partial page updates and have been pleased with the 
>> results so far). The only interesting UI thing I've been able to put 
>> together was a proof-of-concept w/ charts: 
>> http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Log-Any&version=1.714 
>> <http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Log-Any&version=1.714> . 
>> I dunno why it says the CORS headers are bad, but if I refresh it 
>> enough it finally works... :p
>>
>> We can schedule some kind of real-time meeting next week if y'all 
>> want. I'll be free from Tuesday on. In the meantime I can gather up 
>> my notes on things outstanding / in-progress (but mostly it's the 
>> data problem and a replacement for the e-mailed report sender).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Doug Bell
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 6, 2025, at 3:14 PM, Scott Baker <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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/ 
>>> <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] <mailto:[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]
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