No more email delivery of cpan-testers
Robert Spier
Dear cpan-testers recipients,
Effective Monday night, Feb 11th, 2008, after over a million test
reports[1], we will no longer be supporting the delivery via email of
cpan-testers test reports. With an influx of over 3000 messages a
day, this was causing us to deliver almost 200,000 outbound
messages, most of which nobody read.
cpan-testers test report submission is unaffected by this change.[2]
If you are currently subscribed to cpan-testers, you'll be
unsubscribed, and your mail server will breathe a sign of relief.
You can find test reports at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/rss/posts.xml
nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.cpan.testers/
http://testers.cpan.org/
Why are we doing this? Things were chugging along smoothly, except
every few weeks we'd have a problem where a recipient's mail server
would stop accepting mail, and we'd very quickly end up with a large
backlog of thousands of messages waiting to be delivered. This
would slow down delivery for all of our mailing lists. Recently,
this has been happening more and more often. We analyzed the
problem, and came to the conclusion that the best solution was to
discontinue outbound email. This will let us focus more time on
maintaining more important things.
If you have something that is dependent on receiving all of these
emails, please let us know.
Thanks!
-R
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/01/msg1000000.html
[2] There are some volunteers working on a new system that will take
email out of the picture altogether, creating a faster, more
streamlined, and more consistent test database.
David Cantrell
> Effective Monday night, Feb 11th, 2008, after over a million test
> reports[1], we will no longer be supporting the delivery via email of
> cpan-testers test reports...
>
> If you have something that is dependent on receiving all of these
> emails, please let us know.
I don't have anything that depends on the test reports, but I do use the
notifications that PAUSE sends to the list. Can those please continue
to be allowed through?
They appear to have a From: address of upl...@pause.perl.org.
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Robert Spier
> > reports[1], we will no longer be supporting the delivery via email of
> > cpan-testers test reports...
> >
> > If you have something that is dependent on receiving all of these
> > emails, please let us know.
>
> I don't have anything that depends on the test reports, but I do use the
> notifications that PAUSE sends to the list. Can those please continue
> to be allowed through?
Sorry, can't do that. There isn't a simple way to say "pass these on"
but "archive" everything.
How about we create a new list, cpan-uploads? I'll talk to Andreas
and Ask and we'll discuss.
-R