Hello all, Thank you in advance for your help.
I am the maintainer of around 2 dozen packages. I am also an early career researcher and my insitutional email address will vary depending on where I am employed over the next few years. If I had 2 or 3 packages, I would just plan to update these as my insitution changed, but it seems a bit of a bother to CRAN to potentially update these several times, unless there is strong recommendation to use current institutional emails above all else. With that in mind, I have 3 related (and perhaps redundant questions): 1. Are there best practices for maintainer emails? I was looking through the `CRAN_authors_db()` and it looks like there's a lot of variance between people choosing to use (1) personal vs professional emails and (2) consistent emails across packages vs many emails for a single maintainer. 1. As maintainer check results are organized by email (e.g. https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_christopherkenny_at_fas.harvard.edu.html), is it best to mass update packages to some personal, non-institutional email over a short period of time to ensure that all checks/notes/warnings/errors are assigned to the same person? Said another way: does CRAN prefer that maintainers use a common email, since that seems to be our primary identifier? 2. If updating multiple packages with a new maintainer email account, is there a "best way" to do this to avoid sending CRAN 20-something unique emails and wasting their time each time? For what it's worth, many of the newer checks since R 4.5.0 have highlighted minor NOTES for imperfect patterns that I was using for the plurarlity of my packages, so I do need to send in some best-practice-type updates over the summer anyway. My graduate school email will have a cutoff date about a year from now, so I'm hoping to set up any changes well before it disappears. 1. Best, Chris christophertkenny.com<https://christophertkenny.com/> - christopherke...@fas.harvard.edu - (845) 826-4991 Christopher T. Kenny, PhD, Department of Government, Harvard University [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
