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

[obrl soil]

Hi,

A note for the list, since this may pop up again: ggtern is not abandoned, and is back on CRAN. The active development repo is on bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/nicholasehamilton/ggtern/src/master/ 

There is also a github repo https://github.com/nicholasehamilton/ggtern that is not active, but does get pinged regularly because its not been made clear that development is ongoing elsewhere. The package DESCRIPTION URL field points to http://www.ggtern.com/, but its not obvious where the active repo is until you navigate to http://www.ggtern.com/docs/ and look at the dev url quoted. 

I wonder if it should be CRAN policy that the DESCRIPTION URL points only to an active repo, but I imagine there would be a significant policing burden associated with such a change.

L

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