[R] Package update announcements

[Martin Henry H. Stevens]

Hi Martin,
Maybe we should appeal to each others' vanity ("Just think how many  
hundreds---even thousands---of people will use your package once they  
know about it....") Hmmm. Maybe that would have the opposite of the  
intended effect.
Cheers,
Hank
On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "MHHS" == Martin Henry H Stevens <hstevens at muohio.edu>
>>>>>>     on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:23:46 -0400 writes:
>
>     MHHS> Hi Folks, I was wondering what everyone thought about
>     MHHS> adding a sentence to each package update announcement
>     MHHS> that described what the package did. R extensions are
>     MHHS> so numerous that it is difficult to keep up with them.
>     MHHS> Would it be appropriate to ask package developers to
>     MHHS> add a brief sentence about what the package does, when
>     MHHS> they announce updates?
>
> Thanks a lot, Hank!
>
> I've been supporting your suggestion ever since I had created
> 'R-packages' ( = "R package announcements mailing list").
>
> As moderator, I even occasionally rejected postings to
> R-packages exactly by requiring such short information preceding
> any notice of changes.
>
> I think that >99% of the package authors would also agree, but
> then we are all humans and hence sometimes get into peculiar
> world views such as "there's my package, and there's R and then
> rest of the universe" ;-)
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>     MHHS> I would benefit from such descriptions.
>
>     MHHS> Cheers, Hank
>
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