The CRAN team has very bad experiences in the past when various people
of research groups reponded with non coordinated answers. Hence the
decision was made that we only want to talk to a dedicated maintainer
who is responsible for the submission. And we want to know who that is.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 25.06.2019 23:52, John Muschelli wrote:
So a single email is not a mailing list and it's a research group, so not
really a corporate entity. I don't see WHY explicitly this isn't allowed.
I understand that this decision has been made with a lot of thought in
mind, though. This would make it much easier for research groups to not
orphan packages because the maintainer/student leaves and we can't really
centralize our code bases.
Best,
John
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:48 PM Max Turgeon <max.turg...@umanitoba.ca>
wrote:
Hi John,
"Writing R Extensions" is quite explicit about this:
For a CRAN package it should be a *person*, not a mailing list and not a
corporate entity
Best,
Max
On Jun 25, 2019 3:45 PM, John Muschelli <muschell...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Package Devs,
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether a maintainer can be an
organization/group instead of a person for CRAN? I don't see there being
an issue as long as the "maintainer" is responsive and fixes issues. Just
figured I'd ask before trying this for some packages.
Best,
John
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