Check the status of a submitted package? #3763

Is it an issue to keep resubmitting the packages every 24 hours if they haven’t been approved by moderation yet?

Yes. Each time you submit a package, it goes through the moderation services. By continuously submitting a package it will:

• Go through the package moderation services each time.
• Will never get to a state where it can be reviewed.
• Waste resources, and increase the costs of hosting the package moderation services.

Have you checked out Chocolatey AU as both a project (which on the surface does what you are trying to do) or as to how it detects submitted packages and their status?

• Will never get to a state where it can be reviewed.
• Waste resources, and increase the costs of hosting the package moderation services.

I see. Understood.

Have you checked out Chocolatey AU as both a project (which on the surface does what you are trying to do) or as to how it detects submitted packages and their status?

I only took a quick look and didn’t spot anything right away, but I’ll dig in further.

In the meantime, my current approach will be to check the https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/$package/$version URL and skip the push if it does not return an HTTP 404 (Not Found).

Thanks again for the details. Much appreciated.

In the meantime, my current approach will be to check the https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/$package/$version URL and skip the push if it does not return an HTTP 404 (Not Found).

I'd have to double check my update scripts, but I'm pretty sure my scripts detect the latest version (usually from GitHub releases), then they run choco search $package --exact --version $versionFound, and if that returns nothing then it bundles things up to be pushed.

It looks like Chocolatey AU already does what I had in mind: checking the gallery URL to determine if the package has been submitted.

choco search $package --exact --version $versionFound

Excellent! Thank you @corbob! You are correct:

# Version 5.0.3 is still under moderation at the time of this writing.

# choco search firebird --exact --version 5.0.3        
Chocolatey v2.4.3
firebird 5.0.3
1 packages found.

# choco search firebird --exact
Chocolatey v2.4.3
firebird 5.0.2 [Approved]
1 packages found.

I will proceed with this approach.