I can suggest one example: multcompView: I created it during or
before 2006 and passed it during or before 2011 to Luciano Selzer
<luciano.sel...@gmail.com>. I do not remember the exact process, and
procedures could have changed since then. However, I think I remember
communicating with the CRAN maintainers after Selzer and I agreed he
would take it over. Beyond that, I see that the DESCRIPTION file for
multicompView0.1-3 lists BOTH of us as Maintainer. The version before
that lists me only, and the one after lists him.[1]
Second, last September, Brian Ripley sent an email to 50 different
people saying gdata had problems, the maintainer had not responded, and
it was scheduled to be archived along with all its strong reverse
dependencies on 2020-09-25. I don't know what happened from that except
that the package is still on CRAN with date Published: 2017-06-06, but
my Ecfun package no longer uses it.
Beyond that, I'm pretty sure that anyone can adopt a package in the
archives that is no longer on CRAN and resurrect it if you agree to fix
the problems. However, you should discuss with the CRAN maintainers.
Spencer
[1]
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/multcompView/
On 7/2/21 5:30 AM, Lluís Revilla wrote:
Hi,
I agree that the email handshake is the best approach (and very
reasonable to expect it).
I thought that maybe in cases like this there was a waiting period
and/or multiple attempts to contact the maintainer and someone on the
mailing list might have had some experience with the process.
When I'm ready to take over the package I will ask the CRAN team and
give them more details.
Many thanks to all.
Lluís Revilla
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 08:38, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
On 01.07.2021 23:52, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 01/07/2021 3:11 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 1 July 2021 at 20:00, Lluís Revilla wrote:
| I have a question related to changing maintainers.
| What happens when the old/current maintainer does not respond to
| emails or other methods of contact?
| Would the new maintainer need to wait until the package is removed
| from CRAN to submit it again?
Not speaking for CRAN here but my understanding always was that a full
and
complete 'email handshake' with both old and new maintainer was strongly
preferred / the default simply to prevent misunderstandings or
shenanigans.
I'd agree in the normal case where the package is still active on CRAN.
In the case where a package has unaddressed issues with no response to
CRAN from the maintainer, they'd probably be quite happy to have someone
volunteer to take over.
... and if in doubt, ask the CRAN team and give them details.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Duncan Murdoch
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