Orphaned on CRAN

[ms609]

I see that this package has recently become listed on CRAN as orphaned – which is a real shame as I use it often. Is this a temporary blip or has maintenance of the package been discontinued?

[llrs]

Maybe the problem is with the email, as the description on the Github points to r-enthusiasts.com/ which doesn't seem to exists any longer.

[coatless]

@ms609 temporary. rOpenSci is adopting the package. Would you like to join the effort?

[ms609]

Thanks, @ropensci! I wish I had enough capacity to offer to help out.

[ShixiangWang]

Is there a solution to put it back to CRAN, many R packages will be dropped due to its status "Orphaned on CRAN". 😭

[sckott]

@coatless has taken over and should be submitting a new version soon i think?

[coatless]

Howdy folks, CRAN wants all rchk errors taken care of prior to re-listing. The source for bibtex is a bit large in C. So, it's taking a bit longer than I had anticipated. There are a few rchk errors still.

We should have a candidate that CRAN accepts shortly.

[duckmayr]

@coatless I may have a project soon that depends on bibtex and would be happy to lend a hand on getting this back in full status on CRAN, though I wouldn't have time to help out until the end of the month

Feel free to let me know what would help / where you need folks to pitch in!

[dieghernan]

+1 I think I can also help a little bit on this

[dieghernan]

Cross posted https://ropensci.slack.com/archives/C026GCWKA/p1638555261179100

Hi, Diego Hernangómez speaking, developer of {cffr}. I would like to know the current status of {bibtex}, as it is still orphaned on CRAN with no changes on the source code on the last 14 months.
Recently I was updating cffr for incorporating bibtex support and I ended up developing a clon of bibtex on a few lines of base R:

https://github.com/ropensci/cffr/blob/bibtex/R/bibtex.R

@maelle @sckott @mwmclean (RefManageR, reverse dependency)

EDIT

On the same thread @mwmclean made me aware of rbibutils. Both bibtex and rbibutils are true bibtex readers, and now I feel that I was too naive proposing a solution…

[dieghernan]

Still I would like to request write access to the repo, @maelle

[coatless]

Why not start with a PR first?

[dieghernan]

I planned to start on a new branch and agree the changes. For me it is ok to start with a PR, but the first thing to do IMHO is to create a full test suite for the package in its current state, ideally based on snapshot testing (testthat 3.0)

I would work on that first while improving my proposal on my fork if you agree

[coatless]

Sounds great! I assume you want to continue the discussion in #45?

[dieghernan]

Yeah, don't want to clutter this issue, I think is better this way so I can also expand better the proposal

[coatless]

Package is back on CRAN with a new bibtex parser written by @dieghernan !

[maelle]

🎉 Thanks and congrats @coatless @dieghernan!