Build Timeout for a few packages (Milkdown/Remark-parse/Etc)

[joshuaballoch]

Hello! I'm unsure of whether to file a new bug for some timeouts I'm seeing trying to install a couple packages using jspm (via importmaps on a rails app), or under an existing issue. I reviewed the open issues and think this might be related to #240, so please let me know if you'd like to me refile this as a comment on that issue.

Build Timeout Installing Packages

The main package I was trying to install is Milkdown Core.

I tried installing its dependencies individually, thinking that this might help figure out if this package is building very slowly, or if it's related to a dependency. In turn, I found that the packages remark-parse and remark-stringify time out.

I've run into this in three ways now:

1. Running bin/importmap pin remark-parse in the command line, which hangs and ends with a Timeout error.
2. Opening links for these two packages in browser, on the jspm API. For example, loading remark-parse by the link https://api.jspm.io/generate?install=remark-parse&flattenScope=true and remark-stringify by the link https://api.jspm.io/generate?install=remark-stringify&flattenScope=true. These requests take a long time and end in a Service Unavailable notice.
3. Trying to install these two packages on the JSPM in-browser generator:

That last one finally showed an error building micromark-util-decode-numberic-character-reference@2.0.1 (see screenshot above).

Please let me know if I should add more info or refile somewhere. Thanks for the help!

[guybedford]

Thanks for posting, the micromark-util-decode-numeric-character-reference package was flagged as a spam package as npm has a lot of spam packages with names looking like that. Rebuilding that dependency, these now seem to be working.

Having a better workflow to detect and flag spam-markeed packages would help here in future.