[R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

[Duncan Murdoch]

You should try to contact the maintainer, and find out if they are 
planning an update, but missed CRAN's schedule.  If not, then you should
volunteer to take over as maintainer.

Being a maintainer doesn't require much work for the minimum necessary 
work:  you just need to fix issues as they arise in CRAN checks.  It 
usually doesn't require much expertise:  if an issue arises that you 
don't understand, then people on this mailing list are likely to be 
helpful in fixing it.  Of course, if you are maintainer you can do much 
more than that, but it's your choice.

Duncan Murdoch

On 06/06/2023 2:04 a.m., Bernd.Gruber wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am the maintainer of a package (dartR) that depends on ggtern (a package that seems not to be maintained anymore).
> Currently the package was removed from CRAN (about 4 weeks ago) due to a simple error, which can be easily fixed. This was kindly achieved by Roger Bivand (simply the remove of a backslash does the trick).
> 
> In an github exchange he also suggested to have an non maintainer update (NMU) for the package in the short term (and find a replacement of orphan the package and find a new maintainer in the long term).
> 
> Here is my first question as I did not find an answer googling it.
> 
> How can I ask, request for an NMU? Would I simply write to CRAN and describe the situation and send the files that need to be replaced?
> 
> The second question is, how I would request to orphan the package and what is the procedure to find a new maintainer (as it relies on ggplot code and this is not really my strength, hence I would try to find someone else to take over).
> 
> Thanks a lot, Bernd
> 
> 
> 
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