Dear Uwe and the CRAN team, Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!).
I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to updating the libxml2 library. In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task? I have some questions about how the maintenance transfer will go: Would someone from the CRAN team help/review the new maintainer for some time? Or would there be a change in the "cre" role and that's all the further involvement of the CRAN team with the package (besides the excellent checks on CRAN)? For anyone considering it, I analyzed a bit the situation of XML and RCurl: https://llrs.dev/post/2023/05/03/cran-maintained-packages/ In short, with ~300 direct dependencies, and many highly used, across CRAN and Bioconductor's packages. Kind regards, Lluís On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 15:51, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > Dear package developers, > > the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto > maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'. > Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate > to other packages for reading XML structures. This has not happened and > we still see dozens of strong dependencies on XML. > > So we are looking for a person volunteering to take over 'XML'. > Please let us know if you are interested. > > For the CRAN team, > Uwe Ligges > ______________________________________________ > 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
