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

[Rafael H. M. Pereira]

Thank you  Dirk and Hugo for your responses. I guess I'll just have to be
patient and wait.

I can only imagine how the CRAN team is overwhelmed by the exponential
growth of package submissions. I wonder, though, whether the CRAN
maintainers and the R community more broadly are thinking about
alternatives to deal with such growing demand without compromising the
speed and consistency/quality of package development. Expanding the team of
CRAN maintainers would be the most obvious solution but I confess I'm not
familiar enough with the whole process to assess what would be the best
routes of action to tackle this bottleneck.

best

Rafael H M Pereira

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:46 AM Hugo Gruson <hugo.gruson+R using normalesup.org>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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