[R-pkg-devel] Winbuilder queues jammed again?

[Ben Bolker]

Maybe there's something queriable similar to the CRAN queue?  (In an
ideal world this could even be incorporated into F Michonneau's
foghorn package ...)

   It's probably been suggested already in this thread, but perhaps
rhub would work for you as an alternative?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:35 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry to be a pest, but I submitted a package to winbuilder more than 24
> hours ago, and nothing has come back to me.  For a while (a few days
> ago) I was getting about a 20 minute turnaround.
>
> One gets dependant on facilities such as winbuilder and gets frustrated
> when they don't perform quite as expected.
>
> I know this sounds demanding (in respect of a free service that is
> provided entirely due to Uwe's good graces), but, said he plaintively,
> is there any way that some sort of indication of the expected wait time
> could be made available?  Or an indication of the length of the queue,
> or something like that?
>
> Even an indication that one's submission is still in the queue and
> hasn't disappeared into a black hole in cyberspace, would be reassuring.
>
> Apropos of the latter --- I say that I submitted a package, but in my
> state of advanced senility I can't be sure.  Maybe I just *intended* to,
> but then forgot, or messed up the submission procedure, or buggered
> something else up.  There seems to be no way to check that I really did
> make a submission.  Such a facility would be, uh, nice.  Said he,
> plaintively.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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