Hi all, Several people on my team have received responses to their CRAN submissions from new members of the CRAN team who appear to be student assistants (judging from their job titles: "Studentischer administrativer Mitarbeiter"). From the outside, they appear to be exercising editorial control[^1] and conducting design reviews[^2].
CRAN is a critical piece of R community infrastructure, and I am sure these students have been surrounded by the proper checks and balances, but it's not obvious what their role is from the outside. I'd really appreciate knowing a little more about them: * Who are they? * Are they paid employees or volunteers? * What is their scope of work? * How are they trained? * If we believe that they have made a mistake, how do we request review from a senior CRAN member? * They appear to be able to apply additional discretionary criteria that are not included in R CMD check or documented in the CRAN policies. Is this true? If so, what is the scope of these additional checks? Hadley [^1]: The devoid package was rejected because the student assistant did not understand the purpose of the package. [^2]: The gargle package was rejected because the student assistant believed that the use of cat() was incorrect. It was not. -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
