Thanks for giving this a look Ben! Good to hear I can convince at least one person of my position. My brain had not thought of cran-submissi...@r-project.org, thanks for the suggestion!
Brian On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:57 PM Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Once all the other issues are resolved, I'd suggest e-mailing > r-cran-submissions with this explanation and asking for clarification. > > My interpretation would have been the same as yours (i.e., that > this is an appropriate e-mail address, and that CRAN maintainers may > have misinterpreted it a mailing list address). > > On 7/22/20 7:05 PM, brian knaus wrote: > > Hello R-pkg-devel, > > > > Our package vcfR, > > > > https://github.com/knausb/vcfR > > > > has been removed from CRAN because they asked me to make changes that I > > have not been able to make before their deadline. One of the issues was > > that the moniker > > > > "briank.lists" > > > > is not appropriate and that we should see CRAN policy. I interpret "CRAN > > policy" here to be the following link. > > > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > > > > I'm struggling with *why* is this inappropriate, so I do not understand > how > > to fix it. My attempt to interpret this issue is that this "moniker" has > > been interpreted as a "mailing list" by a CRAN member. The policy states > > that a "single designated maintainer (a person, not a mailing list)" > should > > be included in the DESCRIPTION. However, in vcfR this address is a > "single > > designated maintainer" (me). It's where I receive mail from various > mailing > > lists I've signed up for. For example, mail I receive from "R-pkg-devel" > > comes to this address. So I feel that this is confusion on the side of > > CRAN. Does anyone see a reason for *why* this may be considered > > inappropriate? > > > > Thank you! > > Brian Knaus > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
