reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)

Hello:


       Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge?  Please see thread below.


       Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of "fda" 
to CRAN.  We committed changes for it last Friday.  I'd like to see 
reports of their "daily checks", then submit to CRAN from R-Forge.  
Unfortunately, it seems to be down now, saying "R-Forge Could Not 
Connect to Database:".  I just tried, 'install.packages("fda", 
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")', and got the previous version, 
which indicates that my changes from last Friday have not been built 
yet.  Also, a few days ago, I got an error from 
'install.packages("pfda", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")' (a 
different package, 'pfda' NOT 'fda').  I don't remember the error 
message, but this same command worked for me just now.


       I infer from this that I should consider submitting the latest 
version of 'fda' to CRAN manually, not waiting for the R-Forge 
[formerly] "daily" builds and checks.


       R-Forge is an incredibly valuable resource.  It would be even 
more valuable if it were more reliable.  I very much appreciate the work 
of the volunteers who maintain it;  I am unfortunately not in a position 
to volunteer to do more for the R-Project generally and R-Forge in 
particular than I already do.


       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves

David Kane<dave<at>  kanecap.com>  writes:

How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/

It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database: "

I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?

Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.

Dave,

This is rather a subject for R-devel. Ignoring this inappropriateness: yes,
indeed, R-Forge has been flaky lately. The database was disconnected for the
whole weekend, came back on Monday, and is gone again. It seems that mailing
lists and email alerts of commits were not working even when the basic R-Forge
was up.

I have sent two messages to R-Forge at r-project.org on these problems. I haven't
got no response, but soon after the first message the Forge woke up, and soon
after the second message it went down. Since I'm not Bayeasian, I don't know
what to say about the effect of my messages.

Cheers, Jari Oksanen

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