Distrbuted Debugging. Or - "Dear Lazy.pm, plz help track down this intermittent failure"
Simon Wistow
simon at thegestalt.org
Wed Nov 12 18:50:10 GMT 2008
So, apparently XML::Feed is failing *some* tests for *some* people.
For the life of me I can't reproduce it.
The tests don't appear to have an particular pattern that I can discern
at first glance although they are consistent[*] and I think they're all
to do with XML::Atom.
So, if anybody can reproduce it reliably then please tell me
1) What versions of XML::Atom, XML::RSS and XML::LibXML you're running
2) What your Perl -V is
3) Whether the failure occurs with earlier versions of XML::Feed other
than 0.3 (specifically 0.23, 0.22 and 0.20)
Moreover, if someone could either provide a patch or a login to a
machine where I can do the testing myself then I will reward them WITH
BEER or an equivalent reward (Want a module written? A feature for one
of my existing modules? A patch for someone else's module? All things
will be considered)
Cheers,
Simon
[*] Two example failures
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2551035.html
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2552599.html
note that both are patched to level 34559 although that seems unlikely
to be the cause
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/34559
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