3 messages · Brian Ripley, Romain Francois
Hi, Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed. More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to r[-]?forge ). Romain
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Hi, Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed.
You can add whatever fields you like, and many authors do.
More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to r[-]?forge ).
But those have a URL on R-forge, and surely giving that is more useful (and URL: is a documented field).
Romain Francois
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Romain Francois wrote:
Hi, Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed.
You can add whatever fields you like, and many authors do.
More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to r[-]?forge ).
But those have a URL on R-forge, and surely giving that is more useful (and URL: is a documented field).
Romain Francois
Sure. I was thinking of coupling this field with some code along the lines of bug.report. BTW, since Maintainer is required, what about a "package" argument in bug.report, that if given just sets the address to the maintainer field (maybe making a separate case for core packages). I can submit a patch for this. Romain
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