[R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

[Duncan Murdoch]

While you can put multiple packages in one Git repository, I'd suggest 
that you don't do that.  Most packages are in their own repository, and 
that means that users who want to contribute to your packages are 
familiar with that setup.  If they have to fork 20 packages at once to 
make a contribution to one of them, they are less likely to want to do it.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2024-07-01 6:04 p.m., Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been maintaining packages in R-Forge for many tears. Last week I
> sent an email to r-forge using r-project.org to report problems with the build
> process. It appears that any changes I have pushed to R-Forge over
> approximately the last two months have resulted in the package remaining
> in the "Building" state, even though the logs suggest that the package
> built successfully on both LINUX and Windows. (Also, four of the six
> affected packages only included changes to the man pages to clean up
> NOTEs from the R cmd checks on old versions at CRAN, where the new
> versions now happily reside.) I have received no response nor
> acknowledgement to my email to R-Forge.
> 
> Assuming that R-Forge has finally succumbed to the ravages of entropy,
> does anyone have advice on creating a git project that contains multiple
> R packages? (I really don't want to have to create 20+ new git projects,
> one per package).
> 
> Best,
>      Kevin
> 
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