All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

use CPAN; no GOOGLE;

janus on 2007-10-02T08:14:03

Today i just found the most annoying ticket on rt.cpan.org after i filed a new bug yesterday: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=26344

If i take this bug as what it is - a bug - can someone fix and close it please? It's even a critical one and i'm all for closing it as soon as possible!

Developer's right

ferreira on 2007-10-02T13:31:55

I feel it's kind of annoying when you are used to report bugs in CPAN modules via rt.cpan.org. But the author is entitled to choose the tools he prefers, so he's right about letting people know that he prefers bug reports via a channel he's more comfortable with.

A good compromise would be if it was possible to redirect automatically the bug queue of Test::Reporter into the author's favourite bug tracker, as well as redirecting the e-mails to bug-Test-Reporter@rt.cpan.org. But it probably won't happen: rt.cpan.org is far from responsive at my experience.

Re:Developer's right

janus on 2007-10-02T21:20:07

I would have even filed the bug at google if no extra registration would be required - an automatism would be very nice indeed.

Re:Developer's right

petdance on 2007-10-02T22:34:42

The extra registration is so that we don't get all the noise from spammers. Look at the Test::Harness some time for an example.

Annoying?

petdance on 2007-10-02T14:30:21

How is it annoying? Sounds like the author can ask for whatever he wants if you want to use his software. No rules that people who release on CPAN must use a given tracker.

Re:Annoying?

janus on 2007-10-02T21:30:24

My only rule is that i want to file bugs without prior registration.
And in the meantime the authors replied already and they are keeping track of RT, too... so my fear was actually for nothing.
But my rule/claim still remains the same.

This is only a temporary problem

Alias on 2008-03-31T09:42:49

The META.yml spec is picking up keys for authors to refer to resources, like version control, bug reporting etc.

I imagine that once the toolchain has had a chance to catch up, you'll be able to add a key of some sort to your Makefile.PL and then Test::Reporter and search.cpan.org etc will know where to send people.

Re:This is only a temporary problem

daxim on 2008-03-31T13:43:14

Toolchain is already caught up, adding key resources/bugtracker works right now.

http://code.google.com/p/test-reporter/issues/detail?id=10