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

[Henrik Bengtsson]

1. I'd guess it helps Uwe a bit you clarify exactly which queue you think
is stuck - otherwise he has to check them all. They're independent.

2. You can look at the different win-builder queues yourself via ftp, see
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2020q1/005098.html

/Henrik

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 14:14 Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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