cpan-testers / cpantesters-deploy

Deploy scripts and configuration file for CPANTesters servers
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Provisionally shut down static CPAN testers site #14

Closed preaction closed 7 years ago

preaction commented 7 years ago

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:

preaction commented 7 years ago

The redirect is in place. Now we wait to see if anyone notices.

preaction commented 7 years ago

No large brouhaha ensued, so this is now disabled.