Re: [R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting after a few days

2019-09-25 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel
Thanks all.  I asked because I don't want to unnecessarily overburden the CRAN 
maintainers.  In this case,  it wasn't a minor bug.

-Roy

> On Sep 25, 2019, at 4:36 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel  wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24 September 2019 at 11:43, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via 
> R-package-devel wrote:
> | A few days ago I  had to resubmit because an external URL I was using in my 
> vignette changed and the nightly builds were issuing warnings.  This morning 
> a user reported a bug.  I have the fix and a new version,  but the test 
> machines,  and I suppose it will also be true of CRAN,  are unhappy about the 
> interval since last submit.  Should I just submit the new version anyway with 
> a note in cram-comments that this is a bug fix.
> 
> Yes: AFAICT these are recommendations to not overburden CRAN.
> 
> And I have hit two distinct types:
> 
> - more than six uploads in six months (which happened when an upstream
>   package was hyperactive) which lead me to space uploads out a little more
>   as "one a month should be plenty" indeed
> 
> - less than seven days since the last upload (which lead me to just wait two
>   days on a very recent "better bug fix to a bug fix" upload I made, and
>   then got me the very automated processing)
> 
> You can look in the R sources for what the cutoffs are (which is how I
> confirmed it was 7) and act accordingly.  So yes, in sum, explain what you do
> to CRAN -- and some human will generally do the Right Thing.
> 
> (And big thanks and kudos to CRAN for the increased automation documented in
> the short update at the end of the most recent R Journal issue. Very
> impressive, and very well done.)
> 
> Dirk
> 
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting after a few days

2019-09-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel


On 24 September 2019 at 11:43, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via 
R-package-devel wrote:
| A few days ago I  had to resubmit because an external URL I was using in my 
vignette changed and the nightly builds were issuing warnings.  This morning a 
user reported a bug.  I have the fix and a new version,  but the test machines, 
 and I suppose it will also be true of CRAN,  are unhappy about the interval 
since last submit.  Should I just submit the new version anyway with a note in 
cram-comments that this is a bug fix.

Yes: AFAICT these are recommendations to not overburden CRAN.

And I have hit two distinct types:

 - more than six uploads in six months (which happened when an upstream
   package was hyperactive) which lead me to space uploads out a little more
   as "one a month should be plenty" indeed

 - less than seven days since the last upload (which lead me to just wait two
   days on a very recent "better bug fix to a bug fix" upload I made, and
   then got me the very automated processing)

You can look in the R sources for what the cutoffs are (which is how I
confirmed it was 7) and act accordingly.  So yes, in sum, explain what you do
to CRAN -- and some human will generally do the Right Thing.

(And big thanks and kudos to CRAN for the increased automation documented in
the short update at the end of the most recent R Journal issue. Very
impressive, and very well done.)

Dirk

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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting after a few days

2019-09-25 Thread Helmut Schütz
Hi Roy,

Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel wrote on 2019-09-24 
20:43:
> Hi All:
>
> A few days ago I  had to resubmit because an external URL I was using in my 
> vignette changed and the nightly builds were issuing warnings.  This morning 
> a user reported a bug.  I have the fix and a new version,  but the test 
> machines,  and I suppose it will also be true of CRAN,  are unhappy about the 
> interval since last submit.

They will. ;-)

> Should I just submit the new version anyway with a note in cram-comments that 
> this is a bug fix.

Absolutely. The one-month interval for new versions is a *recommendation*.
If a bug has to be fixed, go for it -- together with an explanation.
Happened to me once as well (new version correcting a bug after two days).
IIRC, Hadley had to submit a new version of one of his packages after 
three days. Murphy's law.

Cheers,
Helmut

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[R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting after a few days

2019-09-24 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel
Hi All:

A few days ago I  had to resubmit because an external URL I was using in my 
vignette changed and the nightly builds were issuing warnings.  This morning a 
user reported a bug.  I have the fix and a new version,  but the test machines, 
 and I suppose it will also be true of CRAN,  are unhappy about the interval 
since last submit.  Should I just submit the new version anyway with a note in 
cram-comments that this is a bug fix.

Thanks,

-Roy

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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
***Note new street address***
110 McAllister Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)-420-3666
Fax: (831) 420-3980
e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: https://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

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