Hello, We recently started receiving contributions from a user who prefers to only use their GitHub ID.
I tried this entry in DESCRIPTION (with their actual ID): person(comment=c(github="@github_user_id"), role="ctb") But R CMD check complains: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Authors@R field gives persons with no name: [ctb] (github: @github_user_id) Is this actually disallowed for the 'ctb' role, which does not appear in the package citation? I can see the need for more transparency around the 'cre', 'aut', and especially 'cph' roles. What is the best practice in this case? Should I just write fake names, or do we require the user to divulge a real name? I don't see this discussed in WRE or ?person. Michael Chirico ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
