Is it time to start regression testing yet?

[Jim Meyer]

On 6/8/09 2:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> It is also a very good way to get an exact idea of what ports are 
>> being installed.  You can then see that port x has been installed 400 
>> times, 390 of those with no issues, 10 of those with some issue.
> 
> I proposed this two years ago but was shot down because this was 
> considered an invasion of privacy and people didn't want MacPorts 
> "phoning home". I had wanted to have a nice status display on the 
> MacPorts homepage showing which ports were the most popular, for 
> example. I see their point, but I'm glad to re-open the topic if 
> attitudes have changed.

Check out the CPAN::Reporter perl module. It's essentially an opt-in to 
just this sort of thing for Perl modules; if you install it, suddenly 
your build results are sent in.

Seems to answer the privacy issues.

--j