Dear community, I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an issue with one of the packages I maintain (bioOED). The package depended on MEIGOR, a package that was no longer available in Bioconductor. I was given until 2023-11-03 to fix the issue.
I contacted the MEIGOR maintainers and they told me they were migrating to CRAN. Yesterday, they contacted me again, telling me they needed more time for the migration. Hence, I responded to the email I received from CRAN, asking for an extension of the previous deadline (2023-11-03). To my surprise, it is not just that the extension was not granted, but the package has been removed from CRAN today (2023-11-01). Two days before the deadline (2023-11-03): https://cran.r-project.org/package=bioOED Then, I checked my inbox and I saw an email from one of the CRAN maintainers, showing that the package was removed because he had felt offended by my email. I copy-paste the email below. I understand that maintaining CRAN must be a huge work. I also work in academia, so I am totally aware of all the extra work that is required from us. But it is unreasonable that a package can be removed just because a maintainer throws a tantrum Again, I am really sorry I had to write this email, but CRAN cannot work if we allow this type of situation. Kind regards, Alberto Garre ## Mail from rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk on 2023-11-01 8:28 On 31/10/2023 17:21, Alberto Garre wrote: > Dear Brian, Do be respectful whoever you are (you lack the manners to use a signature block but send HTML when you agreed not to!). What exactly have you done for me that would allow you treat me as if I were your peer? Your ingratitude (for CRAN and R) is deafening. > I have talked to the MEIGOR developers and they need a bit more time to > update their package. Would it be possible to get a 4 weeks extension for > the update of bioOED? No one can even install it in current R, so it has been removed. "The time of the volunteers is CRAN’s most precious resource" Professor Ripley > > Thank you very much, > Alberto > > > El vie, 20 oct 2023 a las 9:24, Alberto Garre (<garre.albe...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > >> Thank you very much, Brian. >> >> I have just contacted the developers of MEIGOR because I think they were >> planning a migration to CRAN. I will update the package asap. >> >> Best, >> Alberto >> >> >> El vie, 20 oct 2023 a las 9:22, Prof Brian Ripley (<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >) >> escribió: >> >>> On 20/10/2023 08:17, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>>> Dear maintainer, >>>> >>>> Please see the problems shown on >>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_bioOED.html>. >>>> >>>> Please correct before 2023-11-03 to safely retain your package on CRAN. >>>> >>>> The CRAN Team >>>> >>> This requires package MEIGOR which is not part of BioC 3.18 and has been >>> deprecated so it very unlikely to be part of the final release next week. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >>> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
