Yes, it is.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 26.06.2019 00:00, John Muschelli wrote:
Understood, thanks for the clarification. Is it acceptable to have
gmail tagged emails such as muschellij2+f...@gmail.com
<mailto:muschellij2%2bf...@gmail.com> for different packages (such as fslr)?
Best,
John
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:59 PM Uwe Ligges
<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
<mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
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 <mailto: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
<mailto: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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