On 21.06.2025 04:23, Kenny, Christopher wrote:
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.
Thanks for thinking about mail address updates early. This is the most important part of the process. Too many people let their maintainer addresses run out of service. I think it is a good idea to try to use one address for all your packages, but it is not a requirement. Finally, when well organized and prepared the packages pass checks automatically, then we just need to publish after ajil cinfirmation is received. Then we can well handle 20 submissions for a mail change, don't worry.
Best, Uwe Ligges
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