[R-pkg-devel] Change package maintainer

[Lluís Revilla]

Hi,

I agree that the email handshake is the best approach (and very
reasonable to expect it).
I thought that maybe in cases like this there was a waiting period
and/or multiple attempts to contact the maintainer and someone on the
mailing list might have had some experience with the process.
When I'm ready to take over the package I will ask the CRAN team and
give them more details.

Many thanks to all.

Lluís Revilla

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 08:38, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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> On 01.07.2021 23:52, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > 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.
>
> ... and if in doubt, ask the CRAN team and give them details.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
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