[R-pkg-devel] Change package maintainer

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/07/2021 3:11 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 1 July 2021 at 20:00, Lluís Revilla wrote:
> | I have a question related to changing maintainers.
> | What happens when the old/current maintainer does not respond to
> | emails or other methods of contact?
> | Would the new maintainer need to wait until the package is removed
> | from CRAN to submit it again?
> 
> Not speaking for CRAN here but my understanding always was that a full and
> complete 'email handshake' with both old and new maintainer was strongly
> preferred / the default simply to prevent misunderstandings or shenanigans.

I'd agree in the normal case where the package is still active on CRAN.

In the case where a package has unaddressed issues with no response to 
CRAN from the maintainer, they'd probably be quite happy to have someone 
volunteer to take over.

Duncan Murdoch