On 13-09-15 9:58 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
I've been watching this thread closely and trying not to chime in,
because as Brian Rowe mentioned about CRAN's mysterious absence in a
previous reply.
It's no mystery that they don't discuss CRAN policies on this list.
That's been stated many times. I don't expect that to change because
users on this list make stupid jokes about it.
Duncan Murdoch
CRAN is like a ghost in r-devel (or any other mailing
lists) -- everybody is discussing about it, and nobody has ever seen
it. Perhaps one day useRs will realize that the rings of Saturn are
actually composed of the lost discussions about CRAN. (Just kidding.
No offence. I swear I appreciate the great work of CRAN, and
rep("thank you, CRAN", 1e6).)
Although this discussion may also contribute to the rings of Saturn, I
want to emphasize one final point: requests from package authors do
not necessarily mean more work for CRAN.
Regards,
Yihui
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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