R help - Aug 2010 - reliability of R-Forge?

How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/

It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database:
"

I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?

Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.

Dave Kane

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 02:30 -0400, David Kane wrote:
> How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/
> 
> It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to
Database: "
> 
> I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
> several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
> of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?
> 
> Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.
> 
> Dave Kane
In my experience, very. Although in the past few days there have been
two periods of downtime (error as you report). The resource has been
going through lots of changes over the past several months so some of
the features of R-Forge have been offline (like the full build process)
from time to time, but this is the first full outage I've been aware of
for sometime.

R-Forge hosts hundreds of projects and packages, which also attests to
general reliability.

G

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David Kane <dave <at> kanecap.com> writes:
> 
> How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/
> 
> It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to
Database: "
> 
> I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
> several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
> of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?
> 
> Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.
> 
Dave,

This is rather a subject for R-devel. Ignoring this inappropriateness: yes,
indeed, R-Forge has been flaky lately. The database was disconnected for the
whole weekend, came back on Monday, and is gone again. It seems that mailing
lists and email alerts of commits were not working even when the basic R-Forge
was up.

I have sent two messages to R-Forge at r-project.org on these problems. I
haven't
got no response, but soon after the first message the Forge woke up, and soon
after the second message it went down. Since I'm not Bayeasian, I don't
know
what to say about the effect of my messages.

Cheers, Jari Oksanen

Hello:


       Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge?  Please see thread below.


       Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of
"fda"
to CRAN.  We committed changes for it last Friday.  I'd like to see 
reports of their "daily checks", then submit to CRAN from R-Forge.  
Unfortunately, it seems to be down now, saying "R-Forge Could Not 
Connect to Database:".  I just tried,
'install.packages("fda",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")', and got the previous
version,
which indicates that my changes from last Friday have not been built 
yet.  Also, a few days ago, I got an error from 
'install.packages("pfda",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")' (a
different package, 'pfda' NOT 'fda').  I don't remember the
error
message, but this same command worked for me just now.


       I infer from this that I should consider submitting the latest 
version of 'fda' to CRAN manually, not waiting for the R-Forge 
[formerly] "daily" builds and checks.


       R-Forge is an incredibly valuable resource.  It would be even 
more valuable if it were more reliable.  I very much appreciate the work 
of the volunteers who maintain it;  I am unfortunately not in a position 
to volunteer to do more for the R-Project generally and R-Forge in 
particular than I already do.


       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves


On 8/26/2010 1:07 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:
> David Kane<dave<at>  kanecap.com>  writes:
>
>> How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/
>>
>> It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to
Database: "
>>
>> I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
>> several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
>> of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?
>>
>> Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.
>>
> Dave,
>
> This is rather a subject for R-devel. Ignoring this inappropriateness: yes,
> indeed, R-Forge has been flaky lately. The database was disconnected for
the
> whole weekend, came back on Monday, and is gone again. It seems that
mailing
> lists and email alerts of commits were not working even when the basic
R-Forge
> was up.
>
> I have sent two messages to R-Forge at r-project.org on these problems. I
haven't
> got no response, but soon after the first message the Forge woke up, and
soon
> after the second message it went down. Since I'm not Bayeasian, I
don't know
> what to say about the effect of my messages.
>
> Cheers, Jari Oksanen
>
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