On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be | > on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is | > _truly_ appreciated in its thoroughness and reach) could make the life of | > authors of 4800+ packages easier by communicating and planning a tad more. | | Let me paraphrase that: "The CRAN maintainers do a lot of work, and it | helps me a lot, but if they only did a little bit more work it would | help me even more." | | I suspect they'd be more receptive to suggestions that had them doing | less work, not more.
Presumably that also holds for the authors of the 4800+ packages. But my point is not the about "less", it is about "more predictable". Currently, the system appears to be anything but. We can do better. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
