Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

2023-06-30 Thread obrl soil
Hi, A note for the list, since this may pop up again: ggtern is not abandoned, and is back on CRAN. The active development repo is on bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/nicholasehamilton/ggtern/src/master/ There is also a github repo https://github.com/nicholasehamilton/ggtern that is not

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

2023-06-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Non-Maintainer Update (NMU) is a well-defined term in the Debian Developer's Reference and packaging practice (see [1]) but not something that exists in the CRAN Repository Policy [2] so "requesting" a NMU is a tricky. As Duncan kindly explained there are some words in [2] about transfering /

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

2023-06-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
You should try to contact the maintainer, and find out if they are planning an update, but missed CRAN's schedule. If not, then you should volunteer to take over as maintainer. Being a maintainer doesn't require much work for the minimum necessary work: you just need to fix issues as they