Message-ID: <m2slt5k496.fsf@fhcrc.org>
Date: 2005-12-07T02:52:37Z
From: Seth Falcon
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Updated biocViews beta available: please comment
In-Reply-To: <43963C29.7090301@fhcrc.org> (Robert Gentleman's message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:34:33 -0800")
On 6 Dec 2005, rgentlem at fhcrc.org wrote:
> I wonder (out loud, as it were) if we want them at all. Anyone that
> downloads a package can get the email address, and we do have some
> evidence that even when it is important to do so, few people mail
> the maintainer, so dropping the email address might be the simplest
> approach?
That is certainly an option. I wonder if we would see more mails to
the maintainer if that info was more easily available. I know, how
could it be any easier than accessing it from inside R...
But I do see the point: if they aren't going to get used, let's not
spend time mangling them when we can just remove them.
+ seth