Hi, I agree that the email handshake is the best approach (and very reasonable to expect it). I thought that maybe in cases like this there was a waiting period and/or multiple attempts to contact the maintainer and someone on the mailing list might have had some experience with the process. When I'm ready to take over the package I will ask the CRAN team and give them more details.
Many thanks to all. Lluís Revilla On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 08:38, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > > On 01.07.2021 23:52, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 01/07/2021 3:11 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> > >> On 1 July 2021 at 20:00, Lluís Revilla wrote: > >> | I have a question related to changing maintainers. > >> | What happens when the old/current maintainer does not respond to > >> | emails or other methods of contact? > >> | Would the new maintainer need to wait until the package is removed > >> | from CRAN to submit it again? > >> > >> Not speaking for CRAN here but my understanding always was that a full > >> and > >> complete 'email handshake' with both old and new maintainer was strongly > >> preferred / the default simply to prevent misunderstandings or > >> shenanigans. > > > > I'd agree in the normal case where the package is still active on CRAN. > > > > In the case where a package has unaddressed issues with no response to > > CRAN from the maintainer, they'd probably be quite happy to have someone > > volunteer to take over. > > ... and if in doubt, ask the CRAN team and give them details. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel