Understood, thanks for the clarification. Is it acceptable to have gmail tagged emails such as [email protected] for different packages (such as fslr)?
Best, John On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:59 PM Uwe Ligges <[email protected]> wrote: > The CRAN team has very bad experiences in the past when various people > of research groups reponded with non coordinated answers. Hence the > decision was made that we only want to talk to a dedicated maintainer > who is responsible for the submission. And we want to know who that is. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > On 25.06.2019 23:52, John Muschelli wrote: > > So a single email is not a mailing list and it's a research group, so not > > really a corporate entity. I don't see WHY explicitly this isn't > allowed. > > I understand that this decision has been made with a lot of thought in > > mind, though. This would make it much easier for research groups to not > > orphan packages because the maintainer/student leaves and we can't really > > centralize our code bases. > > > > Best, > > John > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:48 PM Max Turgeon <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi John, > >> > >> "Writing R Extensions" is quite explicit about this: > >> > >> For a CRAN package it should be a *person*, not a mailing list and not a > >> corporate entity > >> > >> Best, > >> Max > >> > >> On Jun 25, 2019 3:45 PM, John Muschelli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Package Devs, > >> Does anyone have any thoughts on whether a maintainer can be an > >> organization/group instead of a person for CRAN? I don't see there > being > >> an issue as long as the "maintainer" is responsive and fixes issues. > Just > >> figured I'd ask before trying this for some packages. > >> > >> Best, > >> John > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
