Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

I hereby offer one beer to the first person who shows me how to use RSelenium
to drive the webform from a script.

Below is a simple script that simulates the form. No crazy RSelenium
browser interactions; I just reverse engineered the HTML form. Tested
and it works.

https://gist.github.com/jeroenooms/48be418e87100d7ea1a2

Not sure if CRAN maintainers will appreciate this, though. The "I have
read the CRAN policies" confirmation page is probably there for a
reason.

Indeed! And we want people to actively think about that for each 
submission. Hence I'd appreciate if people take the time to think about 
a submission in advance, e.g. while tackling the cumbersome task to open 
the webbrowser. ;-)

Also the script will obviously break if CRAN decides to change
the form parameters. However I do agree with many others that some way
to automate the submission process is useful. Perhaps Uwe can comment.

The form may change and we do not guarantee back compatibility. More 
parts of the submission / check procedure will be automated (as also 
happened in the past) and this is work in progress.


Please note that CRAN is not intended as a development platform but for 
more or less stable package releases that won't change too frequently, 
hence we expect that for the not so frequent event of a package 
submission, it is *not too much work for the package maintainer* to use 
the webbrowsr for a submission. It is *much more work for the CRAN 
mintainers* telling 40 people each day that they forgot to read the 
policies and that they submit without thinking about the submission 
carefully in advance - with an update few hours later or asking to 
rename a package .....

Best,
Uwe