[Bioperl-l] Need CPAN release to clear up CPANtesters test failure reports

[James E Keenan]

On 05/16/2016 09:52 AM, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> Thanks Jim!  We can work on pushing out a new release.
>
> One of the long-term problems with BioPerl is the large size of the distribution; we’ve been considering a new 1.7x series to deal with this, but it’s clearly slowed down over the years.  Maybe this will help stimulate that effort again.
>
> chris
>
>> On May 15, 2016, at 6:41 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]

>> Your last CPAN release was in July 2014.  I strongly advise that you do a CPAN release of BioPerl ASAP so that your project does not suffer reputational damage from all those test failure reports.  At the same time, I urge you to go through the bug reports at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=BioPerl.  It's likely that HEAD on github resolves some of these.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>> Jim Keenan

I'd like to follow up on my recommendation that you try to get a new 
CPAN release of BioPerl out soon.

The major North American Perl conference, The Perl 
Conference/YAPC::NA::2016, will be held in Orlando, FL, starting just 26 
days from now.

http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/

A CPAN release before YAPC would be a strong shot in the arm for the 
visibility of BioPerl within the larger Perl community.  Apart from the 
fact that there are software engineers who work in the biomedical 
sciences who frequently attend YAPC, there are also Perl people (like 
myself) who are in a position to submit patches and pull requests simply 
for the purpose of improving the quality of the Perl code.  But people 
in the latter category are unlikely to contribute patches unless they 
think that there is a realistic chance of the code's being released to CPAN.

So, please take advantage of this time-limited opportunity.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan