On 23.01.2024 01:03, Lluís Revilla wrote:
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?
Yes, and adapting the code to new compilers/toolchains.
Note that the team only fixes urgent check issues.
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)?
Ideally the latter.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
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
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