Message-ID: <47a4fd69-4ac6-ca01-0981-21debbb72a4a@uw.edu>
Date: 2017-10-31T20:57:16Z
From: Stephanie M. Gogarten
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Package additional maintainers
In-Reply-To: <c321f468-831d-edd2-f452-ff2950fe9295@embl.de>
Is this a new policy? Will packages that currently have multiple
maintainers be required to remove all but one?
All three of the packages I maintain have multiple maintainers listed.
In two cases, I added a second maintainer to the packages before I went
on parental leave, to ensure that someone would be able to respond to
issues in a timely manner. In the third case, I took over primary
maintenance of a package from its original author, but he would still
like to able to submit changes to Bioconductor. In all these cases, I
think the ability to have multiple maintainers has improved the
reliability of the packages, rather than the reverse.
Stephanie
On 10/31/17 4:16 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
> In this matter, Bioconductor follows the CRAN policy:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
>
> "The package?s DESCRIPTION file must show both the name and email
> address of a single designated maintainer (a person, not a mailing list)."
>
> I understand that the intention for this is to have a single point of
> contact for package-related queries from others. This person can then,
> of course, delegate the work as they see fit.
>
> ????Kind regards
> ??????? Wolfgang
>
>
>
> 31.10.17 10:45, Fatemehsadat Seyednasrollah scripsit:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to ask how can I add additional maintainers who can update
>> git and consequently the package. I think there should be instructions
>> but I could nt find.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Fatemeh
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