On 11/1/23 12:15, Alberto Garre wrote:
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 don't think this is true. The reason is that your package depends on
an unavailable package, so cannot be installed. See
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bioOED/index.html where the
reason is publicly stated.
If I were you I'd simply wait once MEIGOR is on CRAN and then publish
the archived package again.
Best,
Tomas
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
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