> > > > > On 12 Jan 2026, at 14:37, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via > R-package-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > For what it is worth in my case as far as I can tell the behaviors of > both devtools::submit_cran and the cran machine were quote reasonable, > even if it caused me a little pain. The block Uwe describes sounds like > fail2ban or the like, and given the junk we see hitting our services it > is a reasonable thing to run. I had the day wrong when I thought cran was > back up. devtools on submission said ti couldn’t connect, It is not > unreasonable as a submitter, thinking the machine was back up, to wait a > bit, and try again, and maybe do so a few times throughout the day. > That is indeed what I did. Then to be sure it wasn’t a devtools problem I > went to the web page and that is when it seemed to block me. > > > > So my point is everything to my mind behaved reasonably. The only thing > I could suggest, and I have no idea of how much work this would entail, > and I am not looking to make work for people, is perhaps a banner on the > webpage when the service is down, > > > That’s the thing - there *was* a red banner that said no submissions are > accepted so everyone using the official CRAN way was fine, it’s the > back-door access by devtools that caused the problems. The issue is that > once devtools got you blocked, it was too late so you couldn’t go back and > see that you were not supposed to use it since your IP was already on the > blacklist even for the official front-end. Clearly, devtools needs to be > fixed to make sure it’s not submitting things blindly when it’s not > supposed - probably with some help from the CRAN admin team to make sure > there is a well-defiled path for this.
Would it be possible for the form to be blocked as well as the submission page? Typically web servers return a 404 or a 403 when a page isn't available. I can of course scrape the submission page, but now that the message is gone, I don't know what to look for. Hadley -- http://hadley.nz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
