[Bioc-devel] please "watch" the tags on the support site that correspond to packages you maintain

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Levi Waldron" <lwaldron.research at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 9:56:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] please "watch" the tags on the support site that correspond to packages you maintain
> 
> 
> I noticed that a few experimental data packages I would watch don't
> have tags, although I can still add them as Watched Tags. E.g.
> curatedOvarianData, curatedCRCData, curatedBladderData. Also a 3.0
> release software package simulatorZ. Not sure if I will still get
> notifications based on the keyword?
> 


Yes, you will. There is no guarantee that tags already exist for all packages, but if someone creates the tag and you are watching it, you'l get a notification. It might even be that watching a tag creates it, I'm not sure.

Dan


> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <
> dtenenba at fredhutch.org > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi everyone (especially package maintainers),
> 
> As you know, we recently switched the Bioconductor mailing list to a
> Q&A site at https://support.biooconductor.org .
> 
> If you haven't registered on this site, please do so now. If you ever
> subscribed to the Bioconductor list, you already have an account
> ready to go (listed under your email address), you just need to
> activate it by resetting your password here:
> 
> https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/password/reset/
> 
> If you were never on the bioconductor list, you can register here:
> 
> https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/signup/
> 
> or if you prefer to login with a social provider (Persona, Facebook,
> Twittter, Github, Google, Facebook,
> StackExchange/StackOverflow), you can do that here:
> 
> https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/login/
> 
> Once you have an account on the system, please edit your profile and
> in the Watched Tags field, enter a comma-separated list (all in
> lowercase) of the names of all the packages you maintain. You will
> then receive an email whenever anybody posts a question about your
> package.
> 
> We may come up with some programmatic way to make sure maintainers
> are subscribed to the site and are watching the relevant tags, and
> we may make it a requirement, but for now we strongly encourage you
> to do both.
> 
> Let us know here on bioc-devel if you have any questions about this.
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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