Maintainer for rgrass needed by end 2024
Roger Bivand via grass-stats <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Oct 2024 11:21:31 +0000
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In connection with the transfer of the grass-dev list to Discourse, which I am not prepared to follow as it will absorb much more time than scanning the digested list headers, I will give up maintaining the R-GRASS interface package at the end of 2024. The package lives in https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass and the repo can be moved to the preferred location of the new maintainer, and the maintainer change notified to CRAN without difficulty. The arrival of Discourse precipitates a change that was started before a workshop at FOSS4G in 2022 https://rsbivand.github.io/foss4g_2022/modernizing_220822.html, and several GRASS users/developers then contributed to the workshop, and have helped improve the package over many years. Before a hand-over, this group of contributors can go through issues not yet formally closed but mostly settled, to make sure that the new maintainer ramps up smoothly. Best wishes, Roger -- Roger Bivand Emeritus Professor Norwegian School of Economics Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway [email protected]