DESCRIPTION carries the cumulative record of who holds rights and responsibility in the package, and is what CRAN reads. inst/CITATION carries the per-release citation. This file records how roles and contributions have changed over time, which neither of those can express.
Roles follow R’s person() conventions: aut = author, cre = maintainer, ctb = contributor.
Roles by release series
| Series | Dates | aut |
cre |
ctb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.50 – 0.71 | 2023 – present | Lugovoy, Potashnikov | Lugovoy | Sharma |
| 0.01 – 0.11 | 2019 – 2023 | Lugovoy, Potashnikov | Lugovoy | — |
| 0.00.x | 2016 – 2019 | Lugovoy, Potashnikov | Lugovoy | — |
Roles have been stable since 2016; what has changed is who is active. Both authors are named in every citation entry because the joint work remains in the shipped package.
Periods of activity
- Oleg Lugovoy — 2016-06-30 to present. Author and maintainer throughout.
-
Vladimir Potashnikov — 2016-06-30 to 2022-11-24. Co-founder; present from the second commit of the repository. Both founders were listed as maintainers in the initial
DESCRIPTION; this was reduced to a single maintainer the same day, and the split has stood since. - Tarun Sharma — contributor, added 2024-08-31.
Contributions
Contribution descriptions to be agreed between the authors — see the comment in the source of this file.
Tarun Sharma contributed the design of the revised multi-hour storage formulation (March 2024, recorded in dev/changelog.txt), which changed how storage capacity is defined for cap2stg != 1 cases. This is a design contribution with no commits of its own, and is noted here because the git history cannot show it.
Other acknowledgements
Single-commit contributions, not listed in DESCRIPTION:
- Michaja Pehl (PIK) — 2020-01-17
- Vitaliya Zhikhareva — 2020-04-16
-
@AboodaA — reported path handling issues, credited in
dev/changelog.txt(April 2024)
Development tools
Parts of the package have been developed with AI assistance. Consistent with the policy in .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, AI tools are disclosed but are not listed as authors: authorship implies accountability, which a tool cannot carry.
Maintained by the energyRt authors. Last updated 2026-08-01.