NAME CPAN::WWW::Testers::Generator - The pre-2009 CPAN Testers data manager codebase DESCRIPTION This distribution used to generate the CPAN Testers database before 2009. CPAN TESTERS The CPAN Testers project was conceived back in May 1998 by Graham Barr and Chris Nandor as a way to provide multi-platform testing for modules uploaded to CPAN. Today there are over 20 million test reports and more than 100 testers regularly submitting reports each month, giving valuable feedback for users and authors alike. The objective of the group is to test as many of the distributions available on CPAN as possible, on as many platforms as possible, with a variety of perl interpreters. The ultimate goal is to improve the portability of the distributions on CPAN, and provide good feedback to the authors. This distribution was originally written by Leon Brocard to download and summarize CPAN Testers data. However, since 2008, the codebase has been redesigned by Barbie, firstly to use the cpanstats database, and secondly to retrieve data from the Metabase API. Following the complete redesign of the tools in 2009, this distribution and the tools used were no longer required. For the current set of releases for the CPAN Testers family of websites, please see: * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Reports * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Statistics * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Wiki * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Blog ADVANCED WARNING - ADVANCED WARNING - ADVANCED WARNING - ADVANCED WARNING This distribution will soon be deleted from CPAN. It is no longer applicable for the building of the CPAN Testers websites, and no longer maintained. SEE ALSO * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Reports - http://www.cpantesters.org * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Statistics - http://stats.cpantesters.org * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Wiki - http://wiki.cpantesters.org * CPAN-Testers-WWW-Blog - http://blog.cpantesters.org BECOME A TESTER The objective of the CPAN Testers is to test as many of the distributions on CPAN as possible, on as many platforms as possible. The ultimate goal is to improve the portability of the distributions on CPAN, and provide good feedback to the authors. Whether you have a common platform or a very unusual one, you can help by testing modules you install and submitting reports. There are plenty of module authors who could use test reports and helpful feedback on their modules and distributions. If you'd like to get involved, please take a look at the CPAN Testers Wiki, where you can learn how to install and configure one of the recommended smoke tools. For further help and advice, please subscribe to the the CPAN Testers discussion mailing list. CPAN Testers Wiki - http://wiki.cpantesters.org CPAN Testers Discuss mailing list - http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=cpan-testers-discuss AUTHOR Original author: Leon Brocard (C) 2002-2008 Current maintainer: Barbie (C) 2008-2012 LICENSE This code is distributed under the same license as Perl.