[OT] cpantesters.org is playing hard to get.

[syphilis]

Hi,

I haven't been able to view any test reports from cpantesters for about 24 hours now.
I assume others would find the same if they tried to connect - but I'm seeking confirmation that it's "not just me" that's having trouble.

Here's a link to a report that I was able to retrieve 2 days ago, but which now refuses to download.

The "funny thing" is that yesterday, when I first decided to look at some other FAIL reports I had received, I quickly clicked on links to 4 such reports and was therefore downloading 4 separate reports simultaneously.
Having had many previous unpleasant experiences downloading reports from cpantesters, I immediately thought "Oh shit - that's way too big a load for cpantesters.org to handle !".
And I was right :-(
Perhaps they mistook my impatience for a DOS attack, and are now blocking me as retribution ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

[LanX]

> but which now refuses to download.

For me too.

> Perhaps they mistook my impatience for a DOS attack, and are now blocking me as retribution ;-)

You broke the internet!

[hippo]

I'm seeking confirmation that it's "not just me" that's having trouble.

It's not just you. It's also not just individual reports - the main pages for a dist on www and on matrix have been returning cached results for me. eg. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI+4.55 is showing a page from over 2 weeks ago.

I think it's mostly preaction who is looking after it these days but as he doesn't visit here any more you would need to get in touch via some other channel. He's probably aware already, TBF and busy hand-holding a database rebuild or somesuch.

[syphilis]

He's probably aware already, TBF and busy hand-holding a database rebuild or somesuch.

Whoever (if anyone) is trying to fix it is obviously having one helluvan experience.
It has now been at least 5 days (120 hours) since the site went down, and those reports are still inaccessible.

The good news is that I haven't received a single FAIL report from cpantesters in that period. (Always look on the bright side ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

[marto]

Perhaps of interest Enlightened Perl Organisation will close.

[hippo]

The good news is that I haven't received a single FAIL report

Interestingly, the tests are going in OK (at least partially) and the MetaCPAN totals in the sidebar are increasing. Also, and even more encouragingly, fast-matrix is back having been out of action for months. I'd given up checking it TBH, so don't know when it came back but you can use it now if you are interested in the current numbers eg: http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI which as I type lists the last report time as 2023-03-01 08:48 GMT (less than 3 hours ago). Also checked one of my own recent releases and that has a test result from just 11 mins ago.

The web front-ends to cpantesters.org are still having problems however. This extends to almost-static sites like blog.cpantesters.org and iheart.cpantesters.org so it rather suggests that it is at least partially the front-end hosting infrastructure which is creaking.

[kcott]

G'day Rob,

Some hours after you posted ...

Your posted link, http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/a3f42575-6c20-1014-b1c6-daded79a3347, took some minutes to do anything. Then I got:

Service Unavailable

The CPAN Testers service is under heavy load and is temporarily unavailable. Please check back in an hour.

I arbitrarily tried https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV -- all good. I followed the "Testers" link, http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Text-CSV+2.02, and got:

CPAN Testers Matrix: Text-CSV 2.02 (latest distribution)

An error was encountered:
Timeout while fetching data from www.cpantesters.org: timeout=30s

Reusing old cached file, 74.7 days old

That message about reusing a cached file is very common; I didn't worry about it. I clicked on the first swatch in the first column, http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Text-CSV%202.02;os=cygwin;perl=5.37.3;reports=1 -- all good.

That only had one report, http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/d3947a1d-6fd4-1014-84a3-6521b84b448e. Trying that took some minutes for anything to happen, then gave the same "unavailable ... check back in an hour" that I got with your posted URL.

So, some bits are working fine, some working partially, and some not at all.

• CPAN itself -- fine.
• Listing reports -- fine.
• Matrix -- partial; cached result.
• Individual reports -- not working at all.

I think checking back in an hour is probably overly optimistic. I don't think personal retribution is a factor. :-)

[syphilis]

I think checking back in an hour is probably overly optimistic.

Yes - that (along with the "heavy load" bullshit) has always been the advice in the past whenever the test reports were unobtainable.

I don't think personal retribution is a factor. :-)

It probably will be if Birmingham PM[1] ever find out what I've been muttering about them (to myself) for the last day-and-a-bit ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

[1] AIUI, Birmingham PerlMongers take responsibility for the cpantesters.org website. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.)

[hippo]

Good news - it seems to be mostly back to normal now. Your individual report above was retrieved almost instantly and matrix pages are now up-to-date too. http://blog.cpantesters.org/ is still timing out so it isn't 100% but key components seem usable once more.

[syphilis]

Good news - it seems to be mostly back to normal now.

Yep - I've been able to retrieve reports as of 24 hours ago. They're even downloading much more quickly than I've ever seen before !
Now ... if I can just get the testers to stop filing UNKNOWNs as FAILs (as has happened here for example), then I'll have nothing to grumble about ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

[jimav]

But... cpantesters seem to still be completely horked, with no recent reports showing:

   https://cpantesters.org/distro/D/Data-Dumper-Interp.html

always and forever shows v3.1 from May 2022 as the "latest version", while there have been many releases since then.

I sent an email to admin <at> cpantesters.org but got no reply.