Maintaining a package can be a lonesome activity, which sometimes poses a problem if you prefer team work or if you encounter a very thorny-for-you problem. Beside belonging to a supportive community of maintainers (like rOpenSci 😉), for collaborative help and commiseration you can try to build a community of contributors around your package! In this post, we’ll explore one tool helping you towards that goal: “help wanted” issues, with which your repository could attract and retain new …