"cph" role on front page

[noamross]

For some of my packages the cph role is my organization, but they aren't fnd as projects are grant-funded. I'd like the cph author role to appear on the front page. I believe the roles appearing on the front page are currently hard-coded as aut, cre, and fnd. It would be great if this could be configured somehow, such as a flag in the for the author in the authors: YAML field of front_page: TRUE.

[jayhesselberth]

Can you point to an example DESCRIPTION?

[noamross]

Sure! https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/citesdb/blob/master/DESCRIPTION

and the site: https://ecohealthalliance.github.io/citesdb/

[jayhesselberth]

The tidyr page has a similar setup with RStudio as the cph.

https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/

We could simply add cph to the list of included roles; I can't think of any negative impact on sites:

pkgdown/R/build-home-authors.R

Lines 9 to 11 in 9c9cb47

	main <- pkg %>%
	pkg_authors(c("aut", "cre", "fnd")) %>%
	purrr::map(author_list, author_info)

[noamross]

That would work for me!

[jayhesselberth]

@hadley OK to add cph to the roles included for home page display?

[hadley]

I think copyright holder is too weak a role to merit inclusion on every page. For example, R-core ends up being a copyright holder in many packages because we often copy R code from newer versions to backport features to older versions. Or take shiny: it has 20 copyright holders because of the included source.

@noamross if you're including your organisation because they pay you, "fnd" seems most appropriate to me. That's how I flag RStudio as my employer.

[noamross]

Well, "cph" and "fnd" are distinct roles from my perspective when you have a group doing the work with sponsorship from another organization, as is often the case with my grant-funded NGO. I can work around this, but I think the better solution would be something that lets the authors override defaults on which authors appear up front.

[hadley]

Are there any other marc roles that would work for your situation? What about "Host institution [his]" (An organization hosting the event, exhibit, conference, etc., which gave rise to a resource, but having little or no responsibility for the content of the resource)? Or "Sponsor [spn]"
(A person, family, or organization sponsoring some aspect of a resource, e.g., funding research, sponsoring an event)

[noamross]

Yes, it would make sense to make my NGO c('fnd', 'cph'), if we refer to our grantors as c('spn'). Would that preclude CRAN submission as spn is not in utils:::MARC_relator_db_codes_used_with_R? Or can I override the DESCRIPTION roles in _pkgdown.yml?

[hadley]

You can also try what I did to get fnd added to the list — submit to CRAN with it in and plead your case.

[noamross]

Would you accept a PR to allow for overriding the defaults in the authors: section in _pkgdown.yml?

[hadley]

Yeah, as long as it doesn't create too much additional complexity.

[hadley]

Closing because we're unlikely to work on this, but we'd still welcome a PR.