[This article was first published on Bioconductor community blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. IntroductionBioconductor policies include being an active and reachable maintainer. Maintainer emails in the DESCRIPTION of packages often go stale as maintainers change positions. There is also a necessity to have maintainers opt into Bioconductor policies and procedures as they change over time.We have created an application that uses Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to send periodic emails to maintainers to check if the endpoint is reachable and to send a verification opt-in of Bioconductor current policies and procedures and code of conduct once a year.Initial feedback is that this email is “spammy” and may be marked as such by institutions, but it is an initial attempt at compliance. We will look at alternatives to emails like specialized maintainer account access at a future date.Access to InformationThe information is in a publicly accessible database. We do not recommend connecting directly to the webservice but instead using the accompanied Bioconductor R package BiocMaintainerApp. It provides a Shiny application interface for querying Bioconductor package maintainers’ information.Thank youWe appreciate maintainers’ cooperation moving forward.© 2026 Bioconductor. Content is published under Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 License for the text and BSD 3-Clause License for any code. | R-Bloggers To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Bioconductor community blog.R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.Continue reading: Bioconductor Maintainer Validation