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News & Views
on 20th January 2014
A belated update this month. December proved a busy month preparing the new CPAN Testers Admin site. The site is still being tested, but its full launch will be coming soon. A new testers database is now in place, and the updates to the CPAN Testers Statistics site have been made much more dynamic.
A further update to the Statistics site is thanks to a suggestion from David Golden. On the Statistics of CPAN you can now see the current size of both CPAN and BACKPAN. Current sizes are 17GB and 34GB respectively. I've also added the current size of the static reports site too, 51GB as of now. Meanwhile the complete set of databases comprise 621GB of disk space. Thankfully we still have 1.6TB left on the hard disk, so plenty of remove to move.
My thanks to Andreas König over the past month, as he has been able to monitor performance of the databases, and highlighted a few issues. Since moving to the new server, I'm still having to make a few tweaks to the configs. Please let me know if you notice any part of the websites that appear to have stalled. Sadly the stalls have mostly been due to the way SimpleDB returns its data. As I mentioned in my London Perl Workshop talk, I am not a fan.
Speaking of London Perl Workshop, it was great to meet up with folk again, including Andreas König and Neil Bowers. I also had some discussions with a few people about the proposed search site, which Ben Bullock will hopefully looking at this year. My talk, The Future of CPAN Testers, seemed to go down well, and hopefully we'll keep you posted on the progress of the on going projects throughout the year.
David Yingling posted an interesting blog entry, You Can't Test Everything, But At Least Test What's Important, that briefly mentions how CPAN Testers helped to kick start a series of bugfixes for his Fetchware distribution. If CPAN Testers have helped you, please blog about it, and let me know so I can feature in the summary.
Coming soon is the 2014 QA Hackathon. This will be happening in Lyon, France during March, so expect lots of testing related projects and news to be forthcoming, before, during and after the event.
Until next time, happy testing.
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