After many years of promising to get the CPAN Testers Admin site online, I'm pleased to say it's finally here. You can visit the site at admin.cpantesters.org, where you can login as a tester or an author, select reports and mark them to be deleted and submit them to the respective tester to action.

If you are a tester please review the requests and if the report truly is dubious please delete. If you have any questions as to why an author might have requested the report be deleted, please contact them for more clarification. If you are aware of your smoker going off the rails and submitting bogus reports, this site will enable you to delete them before the author highlights them.

If you are an author, please don't request deletions for reports that you just dont like. This service is meant to help clear out reports that are submitted where the smoker or environment is faulty in some way, and the report it produces does not truly represent the report grade. Requesting reports to be delete simply because you don't want to see any red failures in your pages, will be rejected.

In truth, reports are not actually deleted, they are merely set to be ignored, and the build system will extract them from the reports site so they do not appear in pages or JSON files.

However, the Admin site is more than just a report deletion service. It also allows testers to claim emails (particularly many of their old emails), and set their Name and PAUSE identities in the Statistics Leaderboards. In this regard, please note that the Leaderboard is currently only built once a day, so it may take 24 hours before you see any changes.

In addition to this, the tester can also include a preferred contact address. This may not be one used for testing, but is the one they can receive emails for. As older emails become defunct, it is important that testers keep this email address relevant, to ensure anyone wishing to contact them can do so. Note that this email address will be publicly visable via the Find A Tester service, and will be shown on "raw" reports via the Reports website. If you are a CPAN Author, you may wish this to be your pause email address.

A few testers/authors have already been invited to take a look and hopefully we've ironed out the kinks, but if you do spot any perculiarities, please let me know.

In time there may be other features added to the site, so if you have suggestions for improvements, feel free to file issues on GitHub or in RT.