(until 2005), 
and in earlier versions (than 2005): Eleonara Feist, Anja Hueller
Project 
distr is an
umbrella project which contains all the packages of the "
distrXXX"-family. These in
return are all based on package "
distrXXX".
This family currently comprises the packages
It also contains package 
startupmsg
Besides the packages the project also contains the following folders
  - pkg/Mail
 this folder contains important mails sent to Mailing lists R-devel and
R-packages
 
- pkg/utils contains 
 
    - some utility R-functions for package development under Windows 
 --- see README-R-utils
- some utility batch files for building packages under various
versions of R under Windows
 --- see README-batchfiles
Also the informative (non-formatted ASCII-)-Files
  - NEWS
[a global, detailed NEWS for the whole
distrXXX project for developpers upto version 2.0]
 
- WISHLIST
(partly in German) 
- TOBEDONE-PROJEKTE
(partly in
German) 
should be interesting, and each pkg has its own NEWS and TOBEDONE file.