[R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

[John Muschelli]

Understood, thanks for the clarification.  Is it acceptable to have gmail
tagged emails such as muschellij2+fslr using gmail.com for different packages
(such as fslr)?

Best,
John


On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:59 PM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> 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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