Community Call: Maintaining an R Package
March 18, 2020
We’ll start with a short talk by Julia Silge, then spend most of the time on Q & A with four panelists - Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain - moderated by Julia. Our panelists bring a wide range of perspectives so there’s something for everyone. Collectively, they have experience developing and maintaining passion-project packages, very popular packages, too many packages on CRAN, packages on Bioconductor, and taking over maintenance (and changing things!) of a package developed by someone else.
Resources
- Announcement blog post
- Collaborative notes
- Julia Silge's presentation slides
- Pre-event community discussion
- rOpenSci public forum category for discussion of package maintenance
- Taking over maintenance of a software package, by Scott Chamberlain, Maëlle Salmon and Noam Ross
- Relaunching the qualtRics package, by Julia Silge
- Package evolution - changing stuff in your package, in the rOpenSci software development guide
- The mail must get through, by Eric Steven Raymond
- Learning a new codebase, with Patrcia Aas
