[R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

[Uwe Ligges]

On 23.01.2024 01:03, Lluís Revilla wrote:
> Dear Uwe and the CRAN team,
> 
> Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!).
> 
> I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to
> updating the libxml2 library.
> In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task?

Yes, and adapting the code to new compilers/toolchains.
Note that the team only fixes urgent check issues.

> I have some questions about how the maintenance transfer will go:
> Would someone from the CRAN team help/review the new maintainer for some time?
> Or would there be a change in the "cre" role and that's all the
> further involvement of the CRAN team with the package (besides the
> excellent checks on CRAN)?

Ideally the latter.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> 
> For anyone considering it, I analyzed a bit the situation of XML and
> RCurl: https://llrs.dev/post/2023/05/03/cran-maintained-packages/
> In short, with ~300 direct dependencies, and many highly used, across
> CRAN and Bioconductor's packages.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Lluís
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 15:51, Uwe Ligges
> <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>
>> Dear package developers,
>>
>> the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto
>> maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'.
>> Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate
>> to other packages for reading XML structures. This has not happened and
>> we still see dozens of strong dependencies on XML.
>>
>> So we are looking for a person volunteering to take over 'XML'.
>> Please let us know if you are interested.
>>
>> For the CRAN team,
>> Uwe Ligges
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