Is it time to start regression testing yet?

[Jim Meyer]

On 6/8/09 6:17 PM, Jim Meyer wrote:
> 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.

Forgot the link:

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Reporter/lib/CPAN/Reporter.pod

--j