[Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other Windows-related development?

[@@drew m@iii@g oii robbi@s@@me]

Hi all,

I'm somewhat familiar with the MXE/rtools codebase myself (and submitted a few patches a year or two back) and am happy to help out with maintenance if desired. I've also been messing around with the extremely-early-beta gcc WoA patches that are (allegedly) supposed to hit with gcc 17 and am looking forward to being able to get aarch64-win out of the perpetual-beta stage!

Feel free to reach out at any time.

-Andrew




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Subject: Re: [Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other Windows-related development?


The passing of Tomas Kalibera is indeed a shock and a loss to all of us, and the entirety of the R community, even further.  I used to read his blogposts on (now) https://blog.r-project.org/ and they were a gift.



On the concern you bring up, I do remember Jeroen Ooms being the maintainer of Rtools.

And from one day to another, this changed. I never saw an explanation of this decision,

or anything. Maybe R-Core could ask Jeroen Ooms to do this again?



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Subject: [Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other Windows-related development?



Hello.



Tomas Kalibera's passing is tragic on many levels. He was

young�younger than most of us long-time members of this list, I

fear�leaving a family and children bereft. He leaves many friends;

some personal, some virtual. And practically, he leaves a hole in

R-core, especially when it comes to Windows-related development,

maintenance, and debugging.



I apologize if this is too soon, but with his tragic passing, has

R-core decided on who will be the point-person/lead maintainer for

Rtools and other Windows-related issues?



Thank you,



Avi



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