The README states clearly that a package is orphaned under any of three conditions:
1. The Maintainer requests is. 2. The maintainer email bounces 3. The maintainer is unresponsive to requests regarding the package from CRAN maintainers But I think that it is a good idea to include those conditions in the manuals. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:30 AM Max Kuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote: > The CRAN policy page > (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html) implies that > there is a formal procedure for orphaning a package but none is > mentioned in the Extensions manual > (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html). > > This page (https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned/README) > implies that one would simply resubmit the package to CRAN with the > text "ORPHANED" in the `Maintainer` field. > > Is this the case? > > If this is not documented somewhere, can it be added to the Extensions > manual? > > Thanks, > > Max > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
