[R-pkg-devel] Release Frequency

Hi,

During my recent CRAN submissions, I noticed a more streamlined/automatic
process. I am wondering if the submission still requires a manual approval,
or does it go to CRAN automatically after all checks?

I am asking because I accidentally shipped a showstopper bug for a new
feature for DataExplorer v0.6
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DataExplorer> yesterday. The fix is one
line of code change.

However, I am certainly aware of the CRAN Repository Policy
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html#Submission> and
definitely respect that:

*Submitting updates should be done responsibly and with respect for the
volunteers? time. Once a package is established (which may take several
rounds), ?no more than every 1?2 months? seems appropriate.*


If this is the case, I will wait for another month or two to push a fix to
CRAN, and push the fixed version to GitHub for now.

Thank you!


Best,
Boxuan (Bo)

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wrote:

A lot is automated, but another lot has to be checked manually. It depends
on the package and its notes.

Then policies you are quoting have two reasons:

1. we take a look what is going on if a submission comes in too quickly as
this is typically suspicious. Hence a quick submission creates manual work
in any case,

2. each version of a package is archived, so when people submit
frequently, CRAN is growing quickly.

As CRAN is a repository for releases software, we expect that releases are
well tested and hence do not happen too frequently.

In case you nevertheless found a serious bug, please submit a fixed
version and explain why this was needed in the submission comments.

Best,
Uwe Ligges








On 31.05.2018 18:29, Boxuan Cui wrote:

Hi,

During my recent CRAN submissions, I noticed a more streamlined/automatic
process. I am wondering if the submission still requires a manual
approval,
or does it go to CRAN automatically after all checks?

I am asking because I accidentally shipped a showstopper bug for a new
feature for DataExplorer v0.6
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DataExplorer> yesterday. The fix is
one
line of code change.

However, I am certainly aware of the CRAN Repository Policy
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html#Submission> and
definitely respect that:

*Submitting updates should be done responsibly and with respect for the
volunteers? time. Once a package is established (which may take several
rounds), ?no more than every 1?2 months? seems appropriate.*


If this is the case, I will wait for another month or two to push a fix to
CRAN, and push the fixed version to GitHub for now.

Thank you!


Best,
Boxuan (Bo)

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