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<p>This website is to enable authors to select the preferences they require for
receiving reports and/or summaries from the CPAN Testers system.<p>
<p>When CPAN Testers began, reports to authors were sent by testers for each
report that were graded as FAIL or UNKNOWN. The reports were sent directly from
the tester to the author. Unfortunately in more recent times, due to the amount
of test reports now being submitted, some authors have complained of the
overwhelming volume of mail they have been receiving. As a consequence the draft
version of the Author Notification System was launched, together with the
suppression of mailing reports by smoke testers.
<p>The default daily summaries contain links to reports for the first instance
of a test report sent for any given Perl version and Operating System for each
distribution version.</p>
<p>This website aims to provide the authors with more controls over what they
receive. Whether they wish to receive the daily summaries or receive the full
reports, whether they wish to receive just notifications for FAIL graded
reports or all reports, whether they wish to receive reports for only specific
distributions or many other fine grained preferences.</p>
<p>Should there be any problems with your use of the website, please contact
Barbie (barbie@cpan.org) with details.</p>
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