[R] Contributing to R

[Aleksey Vorona]

Hi all,

Could anyone describe what is the proper way to contribute to R? So
far I was going over r-bugs and trying to write patches for bugs I can
fix. My questions is should I also send an email to somebody?

It seems that for some old bugs Bugzilla does not send emails. For
example, I went over an old bug #412 and most of it is fixed. I left a
comment about its current status and Bugzilla notified me that no
email has been sent.

Also, I would really like to get a feedback on the proposed patch to
bug #15211. It would be interesting to see the patch logistic, since
the bug is in Lapack code, not in R itself.

The "developers" page is more for svn committers. And I am feeling a
bit lost here. If there are casual contributors on this list, could
you sent the best practice description, please? Better still would be
to document it somewhere.

-- Aleksey