[R-pkg-devel] winbuilder status?

[Uwe Ligges]

You are most welcome,
Uwe


On 06.10.2025 09:18, Arne Henningsen wrote:
> 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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