Should we merge the R package and the backend into one repo

jhnwllr commented 9 months ago

The R package currently lives here... https://github.com/jhnwllr/gbifan

timrobertson100 commented 9 months ago

Thanks @jhnwllr

Given the backend and R client are going to be so tightly coupled, I could imagine converting this to a mono-repo would make sense for the following reasons:

Feature requests can be discussed and addressed in one place
Releases can be done together and archived (e.g. Zenodo) for a DOI
Contributions to the effort can be tracked together covering DB, R and Java
Simpler full end-to-end testing using R to populate the DB
Fewer repositories to track

On the other hand, it might make releases more complicated for R - I don't know enough about how R projects are shipped.

Overall, I'd think it was a good thing to try

jhnwllr commented 9 months ago

The R release should be fine. CRAN doesn't really care where your R package lives as far as I remember, so it should be ok. You just send them a packaged zip file.

gbif / occurrence-annotation

Should we merge the R package and the backend into one repo #30