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CPAN::Reporter has had over 20 releases since I first announced it here on August 26. Now anyone with an up-to-date CPAN.pm can contribute to CPAN Testers -- no smoke server needed.

Some of the major developments since August:

Full CPAN.pm support since version 1.88; CPAN::Reporter added to Bundle::CPANxxl
Added interactive configuration direct from CPAN.pm with: 'o conf init test_report'
Added customization of action prompt defaults based on the test report grade. E.g., CC author on FAIL, but not otherwise
Distributions that fail tests but are missing prerequisites are marked as NA instead of FAIL
Test report includes prerequisite versions, environment variables, special Perl variables, and installed versions of the toolchain (e.g. ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
Added support for old style "test.pl" files

Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPAN::Reporter is easy. From the CPAN shell prompt:

cpan> install CPAN::Reporter
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> o conf init test_report
cpan> o conf commit
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Future development work on CPAN::Reporter will include better handling for interrupted tests and better integration with CPAN.pm to be able to report failures in Makefile.PL and "make" even before tests are run.

Come be a CPAN Tester today!

-xdg

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