Thank you Dirk and Hugo for your responses. I guess I'll just have to be patient and wait.
I can only imagine how the CRAN team is overwhelmed by the exponential growth of package submissions. I wonder, though, whether the CRAN maintainers and the R community more broadly are thinking about alternatives to deal with such growing demand without compromising the speed and consistency/quality of package development. Expanding the team of CRAN maintainers would be the most obvious solution but I confess I'm not familiar enough with the whole process to assess what would be the best routes of action to tackle this bottleneck. best Rafael H M Pereira On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:46 AM Hugo Gruson <hugo.gruso...@normalesup.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a bit tricky since the documentation on the dashboard comes from > an official, authoritative, source: the R journal [1]. > > "pending: if a decision is pending a response from the package > maintainer: If an additional issue was present in the package that we > cannot check for in the incoming checks (such as the BLAS issues > mentioned in the section above), the maintainer is automatically asked > whether these issues have been fixed. Same is true for change of > maintainer (or maintainer's mail address) where the old maintainer (old > address) is automatically asked to confirm the maintainer change. The > answers have to be processed manually." > > As Dirk explains and as reported in > https://github.com/lockedata/cransays/issues/29, it is likely not true > anymore but in the absence of further official information, it is > difficult to issue a fix. > > A later issue of the R journal [2] introduces the "waiting" and > "newbies" categories but does not expand on the new role of "pending". > > Best, > > Hugo > > [1]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2018-1/cran.pdf > [2]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2019-1/cran.pdf > > On 19/10/2020 02:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > On 18 October 2020 at 20:56, Rafael H. M. Pereira wrote: > > | The CRAN incoming Dashboard indicates that the status of my package > (r5r) > > | is "pending", which means 'the CRAN maintainers are waiting for an > action > > | on your side. You should check your emails!'. > > > > AFAICT the text there is wrong: it corresponds to state 'waiting' as > > 'pending' means CRAN is pondering the state of the package. > > > > Your package has only been there for three (mostly weekend) days which is > > nothing. I have one 'waiting' for five days now and it is simply > (AFAICT) a > > false positive. Plus, it had already been delayed by a spurious > compilation > > error on their end before that so the total is well over a week now. Very > > frustrating. But there is exactly zero you or I can do about it. > > > > | However, I haven't received any email with guidance on how to proceed. > Is > > | there any CRAN webpage to check the latest check results and get a > sense of > > | what I should be doing? > > > > No. > > > > I can only suggest to trust official documentation (Writing R Extensions, > > CRAN Repository Policy) more. Asking here is also better than guessing. > > > > Dirk > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
