From romain.francois at dbmail.com  Thu Nov  5 13:11:01 2009
From: romain.francois at dbmail.com (Romain Francois)
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:11:01 +0100
Subject: [Rd] MailingList: in DESCRIPTION
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On 11/05/2009 12:44 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Romain Francois wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file
>> so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed.
>
> You can add whatever fields you like, and many authors do.
>
>> More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to
>> r[-]?forge ).
>
> But those have a URL on R-forge, and surely giving that is more useful
> (and URL: is a documented field).
>
>> Romain Francois

Sure. I was thinking of coupling this field with some code along the 
lines of bug.report.

BTW, since Maintainer is required, what about a "package" argument in 
bug.report, that if given just sets the address to the maintainer field 
(maybe making a separate case for core packages). I can submit a patch 
for this.

Romain

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[Rd] MailingList: in DESCRIPTION
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