Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

[obrl soil]

Hi,

A note for the list, since this may pop up again: ggtern is not abandoned, and 
is back on CRAN. The active development repo is on bitbucket at 
https://bitbucket.org/nicholasehamilton/ggtern/src/master/ 

There is also a github repo https://github.com/nicholasehamilton/ggtern that is 
not active, but does get pinged regularly because its not been made clear that 
development is ongoing elsewhere. The package DESCRIPTION URL field points to 
http://www.ggtern.com/, but its not obvious where the active repo is until you 
navigate to http://www.ggtern.com/docs/ and look at the dev url quoted. 

I wonder if it should be CRAN policy that the DESCRIPTION URL points only to an 
active repo, but I imagine there would be a significant policing burden 
associated with such a change.

L

From: R-package-devel  on behalf of 
Bernd.Gruber 
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 6:04 PM
To: r-package-devel@r-project.org 
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU 
 
Hi everyone,

I am the maintainer of a package (dartR) that depends on ggtern (a package that 
seems not to be maintained anymore).
Currently the package was removed from CRAN (about 4 weeks ago) due to a simple 
error, which can be easily fixed. This was kindly achieved by Roger Bivand 
(simply the remove of a backslash does the trick).

In an github exchange he also suggested to have an non maintainer update (NMU) 
for the package in the short term (and find a replacement of orphan the package 
and find a new maintainer in the long term).

Here is my first question as I did not find an answer googling it.

How can I ask, request for an NMU? Would I simply write to CRAN and describe 
the situation and send the files that need to be replaced?

The second question is, how I would request to orphan the package and what is 
the procedure to find a new maintainer (as it relies on ggplot code and this is 
not really my strength, hence I would try to find someone else to take over).

Thanks a lot, Bernd



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Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Non-Maintainer Update (NMU) is a well-defined term in the Debian Developer's
Reference and packaging practice (see [1]) but not something that exists in
the CRAN Repository Policy [2] so "requesting" a NMU is a tricky.  As Duncan
kindly explained there are some words in [2] about transfering / taking over
but the "one-off nature" of the NMU is not something we have here at CRAN.

Best,  Dirk

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload
[2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

[Duncan Murdoch]

You should try to contact the maintainer, and find out if they are 
planning an update, but missed CRAN's schedule.  If not, then you should

volunteer to take over as maintainer.

Being a maintainer doesn't require much work for the minimum necessary 
work:  you just need to fix issues as they arise in CRAN checks.  It 
usually doesn't require much expertise:  if an issue arises that you 
don't understand, then people on this mailing list are likely to be 
helpful in fixing it.  Of course, if you are maintainer you can do much 
more than that, but it's your choice.


Duncan Murdoch

On 06/06/2023 2:04 a.m., Bernd.Gruber wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am the maintainer of a package (dartR) that depends on ggtern (a package that 
seems not to be maintained anymore).
Currently the package was removed from CRAN (about 4 weeks ago) due to a simple 
error, which can be easily fixed. This was kindly achieved by Roger Bivand 
(simply the remove of a backslash does the trick).

In an github exchange he also suggested to have an non maintainer update (NMU) 
for the package in the short term (and find a replacement of orphan the package 
and find a new maintainer in the long term).

Here is my first question as I did not find an answer googling it.

How can I ask, request for an NMU? Would I simply write to CRAN and describe 
the situation and send the files that need to be replaced?

The second question is, how I would request to orphan the package and what is 
the procedure to find a new maintainer (as it relies on ggplot code and this is 
not really my strength, hence I would try to find someone else to take over).

Thanks a lot, Bernd



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[R-pkg-devel] How to request for an Non Maintainer update - NMU

[Bernd . Gruber]

Hi everyone,

I am the maintainer of a package (dartR) that depends on ggtern (a package that 
seems not to be maintained anymore).
Currently the package was removed from CRAN (about 4 weeks ago) due to a simple 
error, which can be easily fixed. This was kindly achieved by Roger Bivand 
(simply the remove of a backslash does the trick).

In an github exchange he also suggested to have an non maintainer update (NMU) 
for the package in the short term (and find a replacement of orphan the package 
and find a new maintainer in the long term).

Here is my first question as I did not find an answer googling it.

How can I ask, request for an NMU? Would I simply write to CRAN and describe 
the situation and send the files that need to be replaced?

The second question is, how I would request to orphan the package and what is 
the procedure to find a new maintainer (as it relies on ggplot code and this is 
not really my strength, hence I would try to find someone else to take over).

Thanks a lot, Bernd



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Tel: (02) 6206 3804 ,=._.+   _ \..--( /
Fax: (02) 6201 2328   \\.-''_.-' \ ( \_
Institute for Applied Ecology  `'''   `\__   /\
Faculty of Science and Technology  ')
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