From plummerm at iarc.fr  Thu Sep 28 18:50:43 2017
From: plummerm at iarc.fr (Martyn Plummer)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:50:43 +0000
Subject: [Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
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David,

I think ideally we want to appoint a single person to take primary
responsibility for the Windows builds. We are currently discussing this
within R Core.

We also recognize that Microsoft is a stakeholder in R for Windows. The
same is true of other members of the R Consortium. Going forward, it
would be useful if all stakeholders could contribute to both support
and strategic discussions in this area.

best
Martyn

On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 15:47 +0000, David Smith via R-devel wrote:
> Likewise, a hearty THANK YOU from me and the rest of the team at
> Microsoft for all the work you, Duncan, have put into making R
> available for Windows users around the world over the past 15 years.
> I know it wasn't easy (Windows is not without its quirks), but R
> users everywhere, ourselves included, are deeply appreciative and
> have benefited greatly.
> 
> The Microsoft R team is willing and able to produce builds for R on
> Windows going forward. As Duncan noted, we've been doing this already
> for some time for MRAN. I'd love to hear thoughts from this community
> on what that might mean, and Duncan I'll also reach out to you
> directly off-list. 
> 
> Cheers,
> # David   
> 
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> Joris Meys
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> Subject: [Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
> 
> Dear dev team,
> 
> I was sorry to see the announcement of Duncan about his retirement
> from maintaining the R Windows build and Rtools. Duncan, thank you
> incredibly much for your 15 years of devotion and your impressive
> contribution to the R community as a whole.
> 
> Thinking about the future, I wondered whether there were plans for
> the succession of Duncan. Is it the intention to continue providing
> Rtools and a Windows build, or are these tasks left open for anyone
> (possibly Microsoft itself) to take them over? And if so, how will
> the decision be made on that?
> 
> Cheers
> Joris
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[Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
Martyn Plummer