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

[Spencer Graves]

  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


On 8/26/2010 1:07 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:
> 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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