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

[Matthew Dowle]

Spencer and David,

My experience of R-Forge :

i) SVN access and project management web pages have been *very* reliable all 
this year ... up until the weekend.  This week was the first time I ever saw 
"R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database".

ii) The nightly build and checks have been consistently unreliable all year. 
At best the nightly build is a few days behind the latest commit, but they 
are working on it. This isn't as critical as (i) though since users can 
install from source: 
install.packages("<pkg>",type="source",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org").

iii) Mailing lists have been down since the weekend and I too have been 
mailing R-Forge at r-project.org with no response.  That is *very* unusual; 
first time.

Hope that helps to put it into context at least.

Matthew

P.S. I notice that R-Forge appears to be back up now, including the mailing 
lists.


"Spencer Graves" <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote in message 
news:4C762B50.7000402 at structuremonitoring.com...
  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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