Looking for new maintainer

[ShotaOchi]

I'm looking for new maintainer of imager.
It's better if a motivated person is a maintainer of imager.

[ShotaOchi]

I'm still looking for new maintainer.

[asgr]

I might be interested, along with a collaborator of mine (rtobar). I use the imager package a lot for some of my astronomy related packages and know the R side well, and he’s a real C/C++ guru.

What would be involved? Would you hand over this actual repo (otherwise I think we lost the issues)? The version on CRAN seems to be different (ahead) of the GitHub repo?

[ShotaOchi]

I have fixed imager when CRAN told me to do it
but recently it's hard for me to make time for imager.
That's why I'm looking for someone who take over maintenance of imager.

I don't have a right to hand over this repo.
Maybe @dahtah will do it if you ask him.

The version of imager on this repo is different from the version of imager on CRAN
because @dahtah doesn't have enough time to merge pull requests.
The newest version of imager is on dev_ochi branch of my forked repository.
https://github.com/ShotaOchi/imager/tree/dev_ochi

[rtobar]

Thanks @ShotaOchi for the further details.

Assuming we take ownership: in terms of repos, I think the best would be that we manage our own fork (probably under @asgr's account) and make releases from there. We'd change the DESCRIPTION file to point to that page instead of pointing it to here to avoid confusions. Also to help with confusions, it'd be good if this repository could be archived (i.e., make it read-only), and its README file changed to simply point users to our fork. We can open a PR here to that effect, then @dahtah would only need to accept it, then archive the repo.

[ShotaOchi]

That's a good idea!

[dahtah]

I'm happy to make any modifications necessary so new maintainers can take over. Thanks a lot for volunteering!

[asgr]

We just edited the README so it now directs people to our new repo for future issues and maintenance.

[asgr]

@ShotaOchi I think the only thing left to do is for you to contact CRAN and let them know I will be the new maintainer (aaron.robotham@uwa.edu.au).

[ShotaOchi]

Thank you so much!
I sent an e-mail to CRAN just now.

[dahtah]

Merged! Thank you very much Shota for your help, and congratulations to the new maintainers!

[rtobar]

@dahtah thanks for that! Could you also archive this repo? (https://github.com/dahtah/imager/settings -> General -> "Danger Zone" -> "Archive this repository"). That will make it read-only, which makes it even more obvious to people arriving that there won't be any more activity happening here.