>> Sorry for a late reply to this thread. But I am wondering: why have you >> decided to make a separate Salsa group instead of making of special >> subgroup in Debian Science Team group? > > Some additional arguments in addition to what Charles said: > > * There were R packages from different teams (Debian Science and > Debian Med currently, DebiChem also has R packages which are > not yet merged). We want to have a common R team. > > * In Debian there are somehow topic based teams (some are organised > as Blends like Debian Science and Debian Med) and technique (mostly > programming language) based teams (Python, Perl, etc.) In many > cases you can argue whether a package belongs to a certain topic > (or in which of the several potential topics) or the technical team. > While R is clearly science oriented Debian Science might be the > natural place but R is also a programming language. The people who > contributed to the decision (including me) consider the advantage > to maintain R packages in a technical team higher than to keep > everything in Debian Science.
I see. Thanks for an explanation. Best regards, Boris