[Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> To: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:55:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> > To: "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
> > Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:33:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support
> > site!
> > 
> > Interesting move.
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > This is a message to announce the beta test for our new support
> > > site.
> > > We hope to replace the regular Bioconductor mailing list with
> > > this
> > > site soon and we have imported the past 11+ years of mailing list
> > > discussion into this new site.  If you would like to help us test
> > > it
> > > out you can do that by logging in here:
> > >
> > > https://support.bioconductor.org
> > >
> > > For those of you who have posted to the bioconductor mailing list
> > > before, you will probably want to recover your well earned
> > > reputation
> > > from previous posts and answers.  To do that you will need to
> > > scroll
> > > to the bottom of the log in page and click the link that says
> > > 'Forgot
> > > Password?'.  This should get you started with your mailing list
> > > email
> > > address which will already be linked to your previous posts.
> > 
> > Since someone else is going to ask the same: What if you've used
> > multiple addresses in the past, e.g. I seem to have 3+ user
> > accounts
> > in my name. Can they be merged?
> 
> 
> If some of the accounts are with providers listed at
> https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/social/connections/ you
> can "connect" them on that page.
> 
> If not, I don't know off the top of my head. I'll research it and get
> back to you.
> 
> 

I asked the author of Biostar about this and he added some code to do it. I will test that code and follow up. 
If those of you who want to merge multiple users (Kasper, I think you're one, sorry I misnderstood your earlier question) could email me off-list and let me know the users they want to merge and the one they want to be the result of the merge, I'll test it out.

Thanks,
Dan



> 
> > 
> > /Henrik
> > 
> > >
> > > And if you have never posted, then you can start a new account
> > > from
> > > that same page.
> > >
> > > As you explore the beta, you may come across things that you
> > > would
> > > like to see changed or that you feel are not working right.  This
> > > site
> > > is based on a fork of Biostars, and we ask that you please post
> > > such
> > > questions to our github repository for this:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/Bioconductor/support.bioconductor.org/issues
> > >
> > > We aspire to switch over to this new site in early September, but
> > > we are
> > > leaving the schedule flexible depending on how well the beta site
> > > works.  Also: please note that posts made to the new site during
> > > the
> > > beta will dissappear after the test period.  We want you to help
> > > us
> > > test it, but this is not the live deployment phase quite yet.
> > >
> > > I expect there will probably be some other questions about this
> > > big
> > > transition. So please ask them as needed and we will try to
> > > answer
> > > them the best we can.
> > >
> > >
> > >   Marc
> > >
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