[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: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:21:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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.
> 

Just a note to all who have written to ask me to merge their multiple accounts:

I probably won't do all of this merging right away, I'll probably just try one or two users to make sure that the functionality works. We are in a public beta period and at the end of this period we will start with a brand new fresh database regenerated (and including all list emails up to that point), so all work like this merging will need to happen again. So I might defer merging your accounts until after the official roll-out of the site, but it doesn't mean I'm ignoring you!

The plan is to do the roll-out in early-mid September.

Dan


> 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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