Matthew Dowle <mdowle <at> mdowle.plus.com> writes: > > > I'm a little surprised by this thread. > > I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and > that's been pretty informative in the past : > http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html > > Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the > CRAN policies advise. winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily, > saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with > one stone. It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN > and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time. > http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx > > I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit > to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming. Only if winbuilder > passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human. But iirc there was a > technical difficulty preventing this. > > Matthew
I was planning to write a careful e-mail to CRAN suggesting essentially this, and I may yet do so, but for now I'll just chime in and "+1" this. Yihui Xie made a very similar suggestion sometime last year (I think). It would seem so much easier for everyone, package maintainers *and* CRAN maintainers, to have an automatic filter of this sort, and I can't figure out any downside other than needing slightly more computer power (which surely must be a reasonable tradeoff for fewer human resources!), *if* having the auto-filter made people sloppier about checking before submitting. Do you happen to remember what the technical difficulty was? If I were a CRAN maintainer (thank goodness I'm not!), overcoming it would be one of my top priorities ... Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel