[R-pkg-devel] Maintainer a Group

[Uwe Ligges]

Yes, it is.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 26.06.2019 00:00, John Muschelli wrote:
> Understood, thanks for the clarification.  Is it acceptable to have 
> gmail tagged emails such as muschellij2+fslr using gmail.com 
> <mailto:muschellij2%2Bfslr 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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