Call for maintainer

[ranghetti]

{MODIStsp} was mainly written by @lbusett (I collaborated as secondary author), who also took care of the rOpenSci submission; I am maintaining it since Lorenzo passed away one year ago. Now, due to a career change, unfortunately I can no longer provide assistance for this package; for this reason I am limiting my activity to urgent maintainance, while a bot autocloses the most of the issues to inform users that their questions can not receive an answer.

This is unpleasant; so, as suggested by @maelle in #260, I am opening this issue to search for a co-maintainer (or a maintainer).

{MODIStsp} is in a stable development stage, so there is no need to implement new features. Required actions would be related to:

• provide assistance to users (currently the bot is autoclosing requests as in The package doesn't work on the new Spectral Indexes I added #254);
• managing eventual USGS server-side changes, like in [SOLVED] MODIStsp package is showing Username and password invalid even when the same credentials are working for NASA earth data search website #257 (actually a rare event);
• managing new-archived MODIS products (e.g. M*D17A3H server change #237 - a current TODO list is in Update products #238).

I thank rOpenSci staff for the possibility to receive support, and in particular @maelle and everyone who will accept this call for help.

[maelle]

@ropensci/admin

[pkautio]

Hi,

I could help with the "Update products" task.

[ranghetti]

As done for package {sen2r} I definitively have to leave the maintenance of R packages I contributed to.
{MODIStsp} will be removed from CRAN; I leave @maelle managing this call for a maintainer.

Once again, my thanks to rOpenSci community.

[pkautio]

I have been actively using MODIStsp for 2 years now and while I might not be able to do any major development for this - most probably it would need any major development either - I could be able to support it and update products when needed. Therefore I could try taking the maintainer role for this package,

[maelle]

@pkautio sorry for missing this! Thanks so much for volunteering. Could you please send me an email to maelle@ropensci.org so that I might know to which email address to send a Slack invitation in particular?

[maelle]

@pkautio friendly reminder 😄

[maelle]

@pkautio Thanks so much for volunteering. Could you please send me an email to maelle@ropensci.org so that I might know to which email address to send a Slack invitation in particular?

[pkautio]

@pkautio Thanks so much for volunteering. Could you please send me an email to maelle@ropensci.org so that I might know to which email address to send a Slack invitation in particular?

Hi, e-mail sent to you.

[maelle]

@pkautio I can't find your email in my inbox 😬

[jfmas]

Dear pkautio,

Thanks so much to maintain MODIStsp, it is a very useful package!
I do not have sufficient coding experience to commit to the code but I can carry out testing.
I tried to install your last update of the package (version 2.20 using httr2) using the source code MODIStsp-2.1.0.tar.gz but I get the following error.

Installing package into ‘/home/jf/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) :
skipping pax global extended headers

• installing source package ‘MODIStsp’ ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  Error in parse(...) :
  /tmp/RtmpsIx4GE/R.INSTALL875e4e1fe83e/MODIStsp-2.1.0/R/MODIStsp_download.R:47:35: unexpected '{'
  46: # Fetch Bearer token to be used for further authentication
  47: if (is.defined(earthdata_token) {
  ^
  ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘MODIStsp’
• removing ‘/home/jf/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/MODIStsp’

[maelle]

@pkautio friendly reminder 😸