[R-pkg-devel] win-builder down?

2 messages · Hugh Parsonage, Rolf Turner

Original

Sat, Feb 29, 2020 5:40 PM #

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.bengtsson at 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.turner at 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.turner at auckland.ac.nz

<mailto:r.turner at 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.wickham at gmail.com

<mailto:h.wickham at 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.

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Sat, Feb 29, 2020 7:18 PM #

On 1/03/20 2:40 pm, Hugh Parsonage wrote:

Just to be clear, it is winbuilder, and not CRAN, that is the subject of 
concern.  In my understanding at least, these (winbuilder and CRAN) are 
quite different entities.

Also I have the vague (quite possibly erroneous) impression that the 
staff of winbuilder consists of a unique individual, namely Uwe Ligges.

It might be a Good Thing if someone located somewhere other than Europe, 
were to volunteer to assist Uwe.   OTOH Uwe might not want any 
assistance and/or might not trust the competence of such volunteers.

cheers,

Rolf

Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276