Are CRAN staff located in Europe only? Is there a case to have a limited staff across multiple timezones with a rolling roster? Obviously if something is reported it’s best if it can be actioned immediately.
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 12:29 pm, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI, in past when queues got stuck, Uwe told me it's often a package that > launches an external process (e.g. java.exe) that doesn't terminate and > prevents R CMD check from terminating/timing out. He got watchdogs to kill > such stray events but there are false negatives. > > A couple of weeks ago I proposed to add a placeholder for the package > currently tested and Uwe said he might look into it, e.g. > > $ curl ftp://win-builder.r-project.org/R-devel/ > 02-05-20 03:10PM 2359737 bayestestR_0.5.2.tar.gz > 02-05-20 11:42AM 0 > some.pkg_0.0.1.tar.gz-PROCESSING > 02-05-20 11:56AM 5053108 catdata_1.2.2.tar.gz > > Even if it doesn't solve the problem, it'll communicate to "us" that > something is stuck and what it is. > > Anyway, we can help out by reporting (like this) when a queue look stuck. > Then I think it helps to clarify which queue/builder is stuck. > > Henrik > > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 15:13 Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > > > On 1/03/20 11:44 am, Max Kuhn wrote: > > > > > On February 29, 2020 at 5:06:35 PM, Rolf Turner ( > r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz > > > <mailto:r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>) wrote: > > >> > > >> On 1/03/20 2:23 am, Hadley Wickham wrote: > > >> > > >> > Is it down again? I'm seeing the same problem again. > > >> > Hadley > > >> > > > >> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 2:41 PM Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com > > <mailto:h.wick...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> Hi all, > > >> >> > > >> >> Is win-builder down? I submitted a couple of packages >24 hours > ago, > > >> >> and haven't heard back. > > >> >> > > >> >> Hadley > > >> > > >> Me too. Submitted a package about 18 hours ago, and so far not a > > >> sausage. Although it's churlish to complain, one gets used to a > service > > >> that has been provided and gets annoyed when the service disappears. > > > > > > True, but it would be unnecessary if `R CMD check —as-cran` did exactly > > > the same thing as win-builder (as well as the extra, informal checks > > > done on a first submission). > > > > Not entirely true. The package that I am currently trying to get built > > is for use by some consulting clients and is not (yet) for public > > release. So I can't/don't submit it to CRAN so as to get a Windoze > > binary that way. > > > > cheers, > > > > Rolf > > > > P.S. I note that the winbuilder web site says: > > > > > Please do not upload Bioconductor packages or CRAN packages. > > > Both Bioconductor and CRAN do have build systems .... > > > > I presume that this exhortation is of some antiquity and is "no longer > > operative". > > > > R. > > > > -- > > Honorary Research Fellow > > Department of Statistics > > University of Auckland > > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel