[Bioc-devel] Maintenance of MetaNeighbor package

[Jesse Gillis]

Hi Nitesh,

That is confirmed for both me and Manthan (who was a computational
science developer in my lab).

Cheers,

Jesse

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:00 AM Stephan Fischer <stephischer using gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jesse, Manthan, Nitesh,
>
> I wrote an e-mail earlier this week to Bioconductor support to take over maintenance of the MetaNeighbor package. Nitesh nicely offered to help me with the task, but would like to make sure that everyone agrees first. Can you please briefly confirm the change by answering this email?
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> Thanks everyone,
>
> Best,
>
> Stephan
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> On 03/09/2020 15:45, Nitesh Turaga wrote:
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> Hi Stephan,
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> First, I’d like you to cc Dr. Jesse Gillis and also Manthan so we know that everyone is in agreement.
>
> I can help you with the permissions on the Bioconductor repo. Before you get permissions you will only be able to fetch using the HTTP protocol, i.e
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> git remote set-url upstream https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/MetaNeighbor
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> git fetch —all
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> Once you get the permissions you can modify the remote to use the SSH protocol instead.
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> Best,
>
> Nitesh
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> On Aug 31, 2020, at 3:49 AM, Stephan Fischer <stephischer using gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> My name is Stephan Fischer, I'm a postdoc at CSHL with Dr Jesse Gillis
> and I'm currently maintaining the internal version of the MetaNeighbor
> package. The Bioconductor version of the package was previously
> maintained by Manthan Shah, who left the lab about a year ago. I would
> like to take over the maintenance of the MetaNeighbor package on
> Bioconductor and sync it with our internal version. Here is what I would
> like to do:
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>  * Change of Github repository: Manthan hosted his own version of
>    MetaNeighbor on a personal Github to sync with Bioconductor. I would
>    rather use the Gillis lab Github instead. If I understand correctly,
>    this should not be too much of an issue, since the two repositories
>    have a shared history (Manthan forked the Gillis lab repo).
>  * Change of permission: I set the bioconductor URL upstream of the
>    Gillis lab repo, but when I try to fetch, I get a warning that I
>    don't have the right permissions. At a glance I could not find how
>    the permission system works. Would it be possible to update
>    permissions so that I (and maybe other lab members) can access the
>    Bioconductor repo?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> Stephan
>
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