On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear dev team,
>
> I was sorry to see the announcement of Duncan about his retirement from
> maintaining the R Windows build and Rtools. Duncan, thank you incredibly
> much for your 15 years of devotion and your impressive contribution to the
> R community as a whole.
>
> Thinking about the future, I wondered whether there were plans for the
> succession of Duncan. Is it the intention to continue providing Rtools and
> a Windows build, or are these tasks left open for anyone (possibly
> Microsoft itself) to take them over? And if so, how will the decision be
> made on that?
>

Always willing to volunteer someone else, my first thoughts would be
to contact Jeroen Ooms and Kevin Ushey. Both, especially Jeroen, were
integral to the successful deployemnt of the 4.9.3 version of Rtools.

Avi

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