The static.cpantesters.org site is a CPAN Testers site that works without JavaScript. At the time, JavaScript was a new thing that some users were (rightfully) uninterested in using (there used to be a lot more ways for JS to annoy a web user). Since then, JS has had some limitations put on it, and there are plenty of browser plugins that allow fine-grained control over which sites are allowed to run JavaScript. The browser landscape has also changed: Most people can be expected to have JS enabled now.
So, since we can now sanely request that users enable JS for us, generating the wholly static website can be phased out, reducing the amount of work that we need to do (and allowing us to instead use our resources to process reports faster).
We'll do this in two stages:
[x] Redirect the static site to the regular site. This will be done for at least a week to see if anyone was using the CPAN Testers site without JavaScript.
[ ] If, after a week, no large brouhaha ensues, disable the code that generates the static site. This should improve our iowait times for more important things.
The
static.cpantesters.org
site is a CPAN Testers site that works without JavaScript. At the time, JavaScript was a new thing that some users were (rightfully) uninterested in using (there used to be a lot more ways for JS to annoy a web user). Since then, JS has had some limitations put on it, and there are plenty of browser plugins that allow fine-grained control over which sites are allowed to run JavaScript. The browser landscape has also changed: Most people can be expected to have JS enabled now.So, since we can now sanely request that users enable JS for us, generating the wholly static website can be phased out, reducing the amount of work that we need to do (and allowing us to instead use our resources to process reports faster).
We'll do this in two stages: