On 25/06/2019 5:52 p.m., 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.
Pick one member of the group to be the maintainer. Don't choose someone who is likely to leave, choose a responsible person who is likely to be around a long time. If that person does leave, being responsible, they'll pass the role to someone else in the group. If they don't, another member of the group can volunteer to CRAN to take over as maintainer after the package is orphaned because the original maintainer is not responding to CRAN requests.
On the other hand, if you were allowed to choose the group email as maintainer, requests from CRAN could be ignored, because everyone might assume it's someone else's responsibility to respond.
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