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

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:28:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!
> 
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- 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.
> 
> Update: Unfortunately neither of the social providers (Persona,
> Twitter, GitHub, Google, Facebook, Stack Exchange) solved my problem,
> but that could be because my older addresses are not associated with
> any of those services.
> 

Yes, I think I was answering the wrong question. You can connect multiple accounts to your main account as long as they are through one of those providers. 

Merging multiple users into one is a different issue.

> By your most recent message, I'll instead send an offline email with
> list accounts to merge.
> 

Thanks.
Dan


> /Henrik
> 
> >
> > If not, I don't know off the top of my head. I'll research it and
> > get back to you.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> /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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> >>
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