{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11","id":147810160,"number":11,"title":"NEWS & Relases","user":{"login":"sckott","id":577668,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/577668?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott","html_url":"https://github.com/sckott","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sckott/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2016-04-12T16:45:01Z","updated_at":"2016-04-12T21:51:23Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'd suggest that it be mandatory that pkg authors use a NEWS or NEWS.md file, __AND__ that on each CRAN release relavant news bits are put into a tagged release on the Releases tab for their repo. \r\n\r\nsound good? \r\n\r\n@ropensci/leadership "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/comments/209117617","html_url":"https://github.com/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11#issuecomment-209117617","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/packaging_guide/issues/11","id":209117617,"user":{"login":"karthik","id":138494,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/138494?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik","html_url":"https://github.com/karthik","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/karthik/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-12T21:51:22Z","updated_at":"2016-04-12T21:51:22Z","body":"I like it. One other idea, is to do an annotated version (using photoshop) for the README. I can do it, but not till later in the week. Here is an example from an upcoming blog post of mine: \r\n\r\n![](http://inundata.org/images/joss.png)\r\n\r\nWe'd show people that things like (#18) mean issue #18 in their repo. etc. "}}