For two and a half years, from January 2024 to June 2026, Posit paid me as a contractor to maintain the R Markdown ecosystem (rmarkdown, knitr, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, etc.). That contract was terminated in June this year. They offered to take the maintainership from me, but I chose to continue the maintenance on my own, because I didn’t want these packages to enter maintenance mode yet as they suggested (which means doing only the bare minimum work to keep them afloat on CRAN). At the same …