[R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

[Uwe Ligges]

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 Ligges



On 25.06.2019 23:52, 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 it much easier for research groups to not
> orphan packages because the maintainer/student leaves and we can't really
> centralize our code bases.
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:48 PM Max Turgeon <Max.Turgeon using umanitoba.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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 <muschellij2 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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