This is probably a niche concern, but I’d find it a pity if a good package name (*) became unavailable forever, esp. if it refers to a real-world concept not owned by the authors of the original package. Perhaps we could allow re-using a name after a grace period (say 1 or 2 years)? To be extra safe, one could also require the first version number of the new package be much higher than the last version of the old (dead) package.
(*) One example I have in mind where we re-used the name of an extinct project is rhdf5. Kind regards Wolfgang > Il giorno 21ott2021, alle ore 13:39, Kern, Lori > <lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org> ha scritto: > > Good point. I'll open an issue on the github to fix. > > > Lori Shepherd > > Bioconductor Core Team > > Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center > > Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics > > Elm & Carlton Streets > > Buffalo, New York 14263 > > ________________________________ > From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Laurent > Gatto <laurent.ga...@uclouvain.be> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 12:53 AM > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Package name > > The Package Guidelines for Developers and Reviewers say that: > > A package name should be descriptive and should not already exist as a > current package (case-insensitive) in Bioconductor nor CRAN. > > The sentences says current packages - does that imply that names of packages > that have been archived (on CRAN) or deprecated (on Bioconductor) are > available? This is likely to lead to serious confusion. > > Laurent > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://secure-web.cisco.com/18tLjfrOdSZ-K_8neKbEy5VWz_fgbNJthSRI3zRVyXXtc-p9kCgNhG51wWXnY7UGhy4yP_imTwLGoP4BCIicB_fqzg9U937WF_IJiOPJh7NnfQXFLeEV-SiiJJ1eCyN2vaJFacWPvahAlN135mDHZNw_peW0Yl4BOq8m2QBMh4i952Nt6oghMQpSWSjaP_2bN4VKIBT2ZP-A7pDqddlOSeCCaMEKJZp_6w1WthdY69MB6lAbsF-i9uX3JVNSCmAlXW3YMNOfVEBijto4EJaGIUJMJwGX_vec9kTf9gtFiYztotSHNfquFZ4GlaHmXeHwPaBEtazOY5fPiuzLjzDK52Q/https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbioc-devel > > > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or > agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended > recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
