Willem,
thanks for volunteering!
Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded
that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in
maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel
yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the Programming
Tools CTV.
As discussed in the other thread: A programming tools task view would be
too broad and Max suggested splitting it up into sharper and more
manageable portions. Maybe you want to pick up one of these sub-topics?
It will be my first time creating a CTV, so some guidance on getting it
setup will be appreciated. I myself am very interested in better/easier
ways to develop faster and nicer code.
The process is usually the following:
- Someone proposes to set up a certain task view - often here in the list
or in a direct e-mail to me.
- If the topic is deemed feasible for a task view, then the
maintainer-to-be compiles a .ctv file following the advice in
vignette("ctv", package = "ctv") and first sends it to me.
- If the maintainer-to-be and myself are satisfied with the result so far,
we typically try to get some more feedback from the mailing list and then
release it to CRAN.
As for version control:
The "ctv" package and all task view reside on R-Forge. All maintainers are
invited to join the R-Forge project and thus get access to the SVN
repository so that they can change their .ctv file directly. Most
maintainers do so but a few maintainers have chose to either use no
version control themselves or use some separate system (e.g., Github). In
the latter cases, updates are sent by e-mail to me.
Best,
Z
Kind regards,
Willem
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