[R-pkg-devel] CRAN pending status , left up in the air

[Hugo Gruson]

Hi all,

this is a bit tricky since the documentation on the dashboard comes from 
an official, authoritative, source: the R journal [1].

"pending: if a decision is pending a response from the package 
maintainer: If an additional issue was present in the package that we 
cannot check for in the incoming checks (such as the BLAS issues 
mentioned in the section above), the maintainer is automatically asked 
whether these issues have been fixed. Same is true for change of 
maintainer (or maintainer's mail address) where the old maintainer (old 
address) is automatically asked to confirm the maintainer change. The 
answers have to be processed manually."

As Dirk explains and as reported in 
https://github.com/lockedata/cransays/issues/29, it is likely not true 
anymore but in the absence of further official information, it is 
difficult to issue a fix.

A later issue of the R journal [2] introduces the "waiting" and 
"newbies" categories but does not expand on the new role of "pending".

Best,

Hugo

[1]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2018-1/cran.pdf
[2]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2019-1/cran.pdf

On 19/10/2020 02:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 18 October 2020 at 20:56, Rafael H. M. Pereira wrote:
> | The CRAN incoming Dashboard indicates that the status of my package (r5r)
> | is "pending", which means 'the CRAN maintainers are waiting for an action
> | on your side. You should check your emails!'.
> 
> AFAICT the text there is wrong: it corresponds to state 'waiting' as
> 'pending' means CRAN is pondering the state of the package.
> 
> Your package has only been there for three (mostly weekend) days which is
> nothing. I have one 'waiting' for five days now and it is simply (AFAICT) a
> false positive. Plus, it had already been delayed by a spurious compilation
> error on their end before that so the total is well over a week now. Very
> frustrating.  But there is exactly zero you or I can do about it.
>   
> | However, I haven't received any email with guidance on how to proceed. Is
> | there any CRAN webpage to check the latest check results and get a sense of
> | what I should be doing?
> 
> No.
> 
> I can only suggest to trust official documentation (Writing R Extensions,
> CRAN Repository Policy) more. Asking here is also better than guessing.
> 
> Dirk
>