R-Forge http link redirection setup busted

On Jul 19, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Arlene Battishill <arlenebattishill at gmail.com> wrote:

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Please unsubscribe me.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:


On 7/19/21 3:36 PM, Marc Schwartz via R-devel wrote:

Dirk,

I have not use R-Forge in years, but on the main page 
(https://r-forge.r-project.org), just before the blue "Latest News" box, 
it shows:

"If you experience any problems or need help you can submit a support 
request to the R-Forge team or write an email to R-Forge at R-Project.org."

I have copied that e-mail address here. The URL for the support request 
form requires a login to R-Forge to access.

Also, there appears to be a top level project associated with the 
R-Forge Admins here:

   https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/site/

with references to the project members in the upper right hand corner.

No activity from the Admins there since December 2020, from what I can 
tell...

          I encourage anyone still trying to use R-Forge to migrate to GitHub. 
  I migrated in 2019 after having many problems with changes not 
triggering checks and getting messages like, "there is no package called 
'Matrix'".  There was a discussion on r-package-devel at r-project.org in 
January and February of this year on how to do that.  That thread could 
probably help anyone interested in doing this.


          Spencer Graves

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote on 7/19/21 4:03 PM:

(Sorry for posting here but the top-level r-forge page does not make 
it all
that clear where to contact its admins.)

When an old-style 'http' URL at r-forge is resolved / redirected to 
'https',
it is corrupted and the redirect breaks.  That required a package 
re-upload
for me a few days ago (as the CRAN url checker is unhappy about a 
borked URL)
and you can see it live too e.g. via

   
https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel

and going to 'rcpp-devel archives' where the hover URL is (note 'http')

   http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/

which when followed 'naively' drops the / between .org and pipermail and
gets a 404

   https://lists.r-forge.r-project.orgpipermail/rcpp-devel/

Reinjecting the missing / helps as

   https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/

works fine.  This is likely a typo / error in the redirection setup of 
the
web server.

I would be very grateful if someone could pass this on to whoever 
looks after
r-forge these days.

Best,  Dirk