Two meta-issues
- You as maintainer of a project are its steward; do you feel you can entrust the experience the users of your package will have to someone for whom you yourself have no email or name? Now, that question is rhetorical in the context of your repo as the thread demonstrates. However, other maintainers may choose differently. - Given both the above, and that you know R CMD check will nag over a lack of (first and) family name, do you think you must add a contributor (who seemingly prefers to anonymous) to the DESCRIPTION file? You could simply decide not to. All this is of course somewhat acadenmic as we have packages on CRAN with author / contributor / creator tags of first and family name which ... are in fact 'noms de plumes' i.e. not actually theirs so overall all this really is a call to the shrug emoji. Turtles all the way down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
