meta questions

[karthik]

Who has/will contribute to this package?

Do we really need a will contribute part at this stage? Why does this matter now?

Are you willing to follow the rOpenSci policies (link), including transferring your repo to the rOpenSci GitHub organization account?

Can we list concrete things to check off here?

Are you willing to follow the [rOpenSci packaging guidelines](https://github.com/ropensci/packaging_guide? If you have disagreements with them, explain.

This seems like a rather big question for a binary answer. I'm not even sure most current rOpenSci packages can safely answer yes to those. Should we break those down here?

[richfitz]

The question:

Are you willing to follow the rOpenSci policies (link), including transferring your repo to the rOpenSci GitHub organization account?

Seems like we might want to flag these things will come in the README (or in a longer "process" document that includes things like setting up the slack links) and then once we have provisional acceptance, tag the issue to indicate that and paste in a set of check boxes for this sort of stuff?

[sckott]

@karthik

Do we really need a will contribute part at this stage? Why does this matter now?

I guess not, just wondering if we should get a sense for who's involved, not really needed

Can we list concrete things to check off here? (wrt policies)

yes, once we agree on the policies, let's just make a bulleted list with checkboxes, or one checkbox to agree to all

On packaging guidelines -we could just say Are there any you disagree with? If so, explain - and if we agree to let that thing slide, cool cool

[karthik]

Should we create a template.md and put things there for people to copy and paste into an issue? We can link to the raw version of that file (so boxes and such won't get rendered) making it a bit easier.

[sckott]

yeah, link to raw is probably best

[karthik]

Just realized we could skip the template.md and stick everything in contributing.md instead.

[sckott]

sure, that works

[richfitz]

We should add a link to the page to edit to update ropensci.org/packages/index.html in the instructions

[sckott]

@richfitz to which page?

[karthik]

@richfitz Good idea, but I'm ambivalent on adding this to contributing.md. We generally don't want to add post acceptance instructions here (same reason a journal doesn't send you printer instructions with submitting guidelines).
Also worried that even though the html is trivial, it's not exactly obvious what one needs to do to edit and what the tags mean etc.

[richfitz]

OK, cool. You added it as a thing to do on #6 but I don't know where to edit and thought it was a general thing that the contributor would add.

[karthik]

Ah, sorry. I'll add a wiki entry for the post acceptance checklist.