Distrbuted Debugging. Or - "Dear Lazy.pm, plz help track down this intermittent failure"

[Dave Hodgkinson]

WFM on latest mac.

FWIW.

IANAL.


On 12 Nov 2008, at 18:50, Simon Wistow wrote:

> 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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