Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-03-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dear Uwe, Did CRAN ever reach a decision here with a suitable volunteer (or group of volunteers) ? The state of XML came up again recently on mastodon, and it might be helpful to share an update if there is one. Thanks, as always, for all you and the rest of the team do for CRAN. Cheers,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-02-05 Thread Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel
Dear Uwe Ligges, On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:50:44 +0100 Uwe Ligges wrote: > So we are looking for a person volunteering to take over 'XML'. > Please let us know if you are interested. Unless someone else has been discussing this with CRAN in private or had a package depending on XML and was

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 23.01.2024 01:03, Lluís Revilla wrote: Dear Uwe and the CRAN team, Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!). I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to updating the libxml2 library. In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task?

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Some thoughts for what the next steps could be: I could be wrong, but I doubt that there's someone out there that wants to pick up 'XML' and start developing it beyond keeping the lights on. I also think the community agrees that 'xml2' is the recommended package to use for XML-related needs.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-25 Thread Heather Turner
Re: guidance on how to migrate from XML to xml2, these notes from Daniel Nüst may be helpful: https://gist.github.com/nuest/3ed3b0057713eb4f4d75d11bb62f2d66. Best wishes, Heather On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Emmanuel Blondel wrote: > if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.01.2024 15:59, Jeroen Ooms wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM Uwe Ligges wrote: Dear package developers, the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'. Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.01.2024 16:38, Emmanuel Blondel wrote: if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for a package maintainer? Move to xml2 probably at some point I assume I use XML in the R packages I've been developing. For some of them, I started before CRAN started being the maintainer, and

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-24 Thread Emmanuel Blondel
if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for a package maintainer? Move to xml2 probably at some point I assume I use XML in the R packages I've been developing. For some of them, I started before CRAN started being the maintainer, and before xml2 inception. The thing is that XML

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM Uwe Ligges wrote: > > Dear package developers, > > the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto > maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'. > Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate > to other packages for reading

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-22 Thread Lluís Revilla
Dear Uwe and the CRAN team, Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!). I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to updating the libxml2 library. In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task? I have some questions about how the

[R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-01-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dear package developers, the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'. Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate to other packages for reading XML structures. This has not happened and we still see