Message-ID: <138e3853-d9a6-ba86-6d0b-a53b929412d0@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-01-09T18:31:02Z
From: John C Nash
Subject: URL checks
In-Reply-To: <24569.59701.853035.931125@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
Is this a topic for Google Summer of Code? See
https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki
On 2021-01-09 12:34 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> The idea of 'white lists' to prevent known (and 'tolerated') issues, note,
> warnings, ... from needlessly reappearing is very powerful and general, and
> can go much further than just URL checks.
>
> I suggested several times in the past that we can look at the format Debian
> uses in its 'lintian' package checker and its override files -- which are
> used across thousands of packages there. But that went nowhere so I stopped.
>
> This issue needs a champion or two to implement a prototype as well as a
> potential R Core / CRAN sponsor to adopt it. But in all those years no smoke
> has come out of any chimneys so ... ?\_(?)_/? is all we get.
>
> Dirk
>