Re: metacpan losing track of certain CPAN distributions

On 10/21/25 08:29, James E Keenan wrote:
> Yesterday I uploaded Perl5-TestEachCommit-0.06.tar.gz to CPAN.  PAUSE 
> confirmed the upload at Mon Oct 20 23:16:51 2025 UTC, and the tarball is 
> available at https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JK/JKEENAN/Perl5- 
> TestEachCommit-0.06.tar.gz.
> 
> However, when I update my local minicpan repository, the latest version 
> of this distro is only 0.05, from Sep 9.
> 
> My upload is not appearing at https://metacpan.org/recent.
> 
> And this distro is not appearing in *any* version https://metacpan.org/ 
> author/JKEENAN.  Nor is it locatable via https://metacpan.org/search? 
> size=20&q=Perl5%3A%3ATestEachCommit.
> 
> The distro is installable from CPAN and I can generate CPANtesters 
> reports on such installations.  However, the "Perl patch/RC" column at 
> http://fast2-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Perl5- 
> TestEachCommit;perl=5.43.4;reports=1 is blank.
> 
> And at https://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt, the entry for my 
> latest report on this distro is showing [/] where it should be showing 
> [JKEENAN/Perl5-TestEachCommit-0.06.tar.gz].
> 
> Prerequisites for this distro do appear to be correctly reported at 
> https://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt
> 
> (Above was also reported at irc.perl.org #metacpan at approx 800 EDT Oct 
> 21 2025)

As of Oct 22 2025 12:59 EDT, metacpan is now displaying the CPAN module 
I cited above:

https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl5-TestEachCommit

It is also visible in the list of recent uploads:

https://metacpan.org/recent

And it is accessible when I perform a 'minicpan' update.

However, when I go to https://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt, I 
still see this string:

[/]

196 times out of 1000 distros-reported-upon.  Example:

[2025-10-22T16:59:18Z] [Chris Williams (BINGOS)] [pass] [/] 
[x86_64-linux-thread-multi] [perl-v5.28.0] 
[72b0ebaa-af68-11f0-a3bc-a055f9c4ba34] [2025-10-22T16:59:18Z]

... which happens to be a report on Mojolicious:

https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/72b0ebaa-af68-11f0-a3bc-a055f9c4ba34

Can anyone describe what is happening here?