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Posted by Barbie
on 13th June 2011

It's taken a little while, but the CPAN Testers Statistics site is now back online. Due to an unfortunate corruption of the cached data file, the file has taken some considerable time to rebuild.

With over 12 million reports to get through, the memory consumption to try and record everything all at once is quite demanding, hence why it's been building a chunk at a time.  At some point very soon, I will be revisiting the way the data is collated and stored in memory and how the statistics are calculated and processed to make it all more efficient. I also plan to make it much more easy to process the sections to enable continuation if any part fails in a single run.

One thing to note, and something that may be more noticeable with the launch of the Admin site, is that the report counter has been adjusted. I recently reported that Chris had posted the 12 millionth report, which was true at the time. However, it now reads that Slaven holds that honour. The reason is due to the bogus reports that are now hidden from the statistics. This will likely happen from time to time, although hopefully not too frequently, as we have got a lot better at catching bad smoke runs and stopping them before they get too carried away.

I'm always looking for suggestions for improvements and additions to the statistics we currently present, and we've had one from Gabor, which I hope to work into the site soon. If you have any ideas for metrics you'd like to see, please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Comments

Strange color coding on the labels

Hi,

a very minor nitpick: on the first graph here http://stats.cpantesters.org/graphs.html we have PASS, FAIL, OTHER but the color coding of the labels is unintuitive. I would think that green for PASS, red for FAIL, and blue for OTHER would be the most logical choice, but instead we have red for PASS, green for OTHER and blue for FAIL. :)

Best regards,

Posted by Pedro Melo on Monday, 13th June 2011


Re: Colours

These colours were the original default set I used when initially creating the charts via the Google Chart API. I was looking at representing the data rather than associating the colours with the data types. I'll look at amending this in the next release, so that the colours can be better associated with the data they represent.

Posted by Barbie on Wednesday, 15th June 2011


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