[R-pkg-devel] winbuilder status?

[Uwe Ligges]

We had mail server issues from Fri to Sun /toda).
Mails should be delievered again.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 05.10.2025 08:31, Arne Henningsen wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> In recent days, I also experienced that I did not receive an email with a
> link to the check results from winbuilder after uploading an improved
> version of my micEcon package. On Friday morning (CEST), I uploaded the
> package twice to both R-release and R-devel but I didn't receive any email.
> Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon/evening I tried again and received an email
> with the results of the check with R-release but not with R-devel. As there
> was a warning, I uploaded a further improved package to both R-release and
> R-devel last night. Although I did this twice, I didn't receive any email.
> I checked my GMail spam folder but the emails aren't there either.  In
> total, 5 times uploaded to R-release but only 1 email with results and 5
> times uploaded to R-devel but no response at all. I have regularly used
> winbuilder for many years but never experienced this problem before. Please
> check this. Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Arne
> 
> Arne Henningsen
> http://www.arne-henningsen.name
> 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025, 02:12 Kenny, Christopher, <
> christopherkenny using fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
>> To the extent it's generally helpful, I have seen this for 3 packages
>> during checking on winbuilder this week. Each with submissions during the
>> late afternoon EST. Something may be stalling and resetting.
>>
>> With Ben's tip to look at the list with foghorn, there does seem to be a
>> small queue that gets stuck, so it's likely not package specific.
>>
>> And, as with Spencer's experience, resubmitting later gives the normal
>> response.
>>
>> It's clearly intermittent, so resubmitting a few hours later seems to be a
>> reliable response for now.
>>
>> Best,
>> Chris
>> ________________________________
>> From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf
>> of Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 3:26 PM
>> To: Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com>; r-package-devel using r-project.org <
>> r-package-devel using r-project.org>
>> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] winbuilder status?
>>
>> Hi, Ben:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for this. I've added "foghorn::winbuilder_queue()" to my routine
>> script ;-)
>>
>>
>> AND I restarted the ones I couldn't find, and they all completed as
>> expected.
>>
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>>
>> On 9/3/25 12:26, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't see it in the queue:
>>>
>>>   > foghorn::winbuilder_queue() |> subset(package=="Ecdat")
>>>
>>> # A tibble: 0 × 5
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/le:+0+%C3%97+5?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>> # ℹ 5 variables: package <chr>, version <pckg_vrs>, folder <chr>, time
>>> <dttm>,
>>> #   size <int>
>>>
>>> but IIRC this only shows packages that are actually in the queue, not
>>> those being processed ...
>>>
>>>     cheers
>>>       Ben
>>>
>>> On 9/3/25 13:15, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>>> Hello, All:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How can I find the status of Win-builder requests?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday at around 22:00 UTC (17:00 UTC-5, Kansas City, USA) I
>>>> submitted three requests to check the results of a change to Ecdat,
>>>> and I have not seen the results now roughly 17 hours later. I used:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> devtools::check_win_devel()
>>>> devtools::check_win_release()
>>>> devtools::check_win_oldrelease()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I got results from previous checks a few minutes before submitting
>>>> these requests.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *** THANKS TO Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org>, who suggested
>>>> replacing "https://www.cde.ca.gov/" with "http://web.archive.org/
>>>> web/20250823081216/https://www.cde.ca.gov/". I tested this locally
>>>> with "R CMD check --as-cran Ecdat_0.4.6.tar.gz", and it seemed to
>>>> work. I'd like to see the winbuilder results before resubmitting the
>>>> package to CRAN.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Spencer Graves
>>>>
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