[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor-mirror permanently removed August 25th

[Martin Morgan]

On 09/06/2017 11:28 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> I agree with Jim. It has been very useful to have the Bioconductor GitHub
> mirror to examine code, and the CRAN mirror as well. A post-hook to push
> there would be very useful.

The mirror causes tremendous confusion on several fronts.

The updates can be not robust for a number of reasons (likely less so 
now that we use git).

The 'definitive' source is git.bioconductor.org, not the github mirror, 
and of course developers often have their own github repository. We 
regularly receive queries from developers trying to push to the mirror, 
users trying to post issues on the mirror, etc.

We have explored a couple of alternative approaches. It seems likely 
that the rss feed / svn log at

   http://bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/

can be easily re-enabled. We've also looked at gitweb for browsing, 
which looks like

   https://root.cern.ch/gitweb/

and is 'different enough' from github that users / developers wouldn't 
get confused (and it would allow source-level browsing of the actual 
repository).

Further discussion welcome.

Martin

> 
> -Robert
> 
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:07 AM Jim Hester <james.f.hester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This mirror could be relatively simply supported by setting up an
>> additional remote in the server side repositories and adding a post-receive
>> hook to each repository that simply pushes to the GitHub mirror remote
>> after commits are received.
>>
>> https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
>> https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/
>>
>> Having an easily browsable source repository online is a pretty valuable
>> thing, it is a shame to lose this.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Turaga, Nitesh <
>> Nitesh.Turaga at roswellpark.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Maintainers,
>>>
>>> The https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror is now stale after
>>> Bioconductor’s git transition. We are no longer going to support it, and
>>> will be taking it offline permanently on August 25th (next Friday).
>>>
>>> If you have “forked” a repository from the Bioconductor-mirror, you will
>>> be fine. It will not have any consequence on your repository, the only
>>> change will be the “forked from bioconductor-mirror” tag will be removed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nitesh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential
>>> information.  If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee
>> or
>>> agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended
>>> recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying,
>>> distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited.  If you have
>>> received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by
>>> e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you.
>>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>>
>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> 


This email message may contain legally privileged and/or...{{dropped:2}}