Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

FWIW, at our department I'm the designated "maintainer" for most of the packages developed here. While I worked on quite a few of them, I'm not involved in all. We chose to do it this way exactly for the reasons mentioned in this thread, and out of respect for the wishes of CRAN. I'm not a research

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

Thanks, a good example for the case at hand, where it again does not help that there is a mailing list, but apparently nobody feels responsible and the CRAN team had to fix the package twice already. Best, Uwe Ligges On 26.06.2019 03:00, Dario Strbenac wrote: Good day, What about the CRAN pa

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

Good day, What about the CRAN package Rmixmod? Its contact address is a mailing list and its status is Orphaned. It seems that the mailing list e-mail address was not detected during review of the recently updated version. I hope that this can systematically be prevented in other package submis

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

Duncan, I agree, but most likely to stay around is the PI, as much of the work is students and post docs, who’s least likely to respond. Even with a responsible person, not easy for them to pass on as it’s not their job or any easy thing to ask if it wasn’t the PI. Also making a post doc or stud

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

On 25/06/2019 5:52 p.m., 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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

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 Lig

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

Understood, thanks for the clarification. Is it acceptable to have gmail tagged emails such as muschellij2+f...@gmail.com for different packages (such as fslr)? Best, John On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:59 PM Uwe Ligges wrote: > The CRAN team has very bad experiences in the past when various peopl

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

Yes, it is. Best, Uwe Ligges On 26.06.2019 00:00, John Muschelli wrote: Understood, thanks for the clarification.  Is it acceptable to have gmail tagged emails such as muschellij2+f...@gmail.com for different packages (such as fslr)? Best, John On Tue,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

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 wrote: Dear Package Devs, Does anyone have any thoughts on whether a maintainer can be an org

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

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

[R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

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