[R-pkg-devel] winbuilder status?

[Arne Henningsen]

Yes, it works again :-) Thanks a lot, Uwe, for fixing this! ...and
thanks a lot to you and the entire CRAN team for your fantastic work!

/Arne

On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 at 23:59, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
> 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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> >>>
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