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

[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.)