[Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

Or maybe it would be sensible to ask GitHub if they can fix this.

If it's a common-ish use case (e.g. for mirrors), it's not something that
should be terribly challenging engineering-wise, and it would prevent a lot
of hooha.

Funfact: GitHub is run and staffed by actual people, most of them pretty
cool



Statistics is the grammar of science.
Karl Pearson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grammar_of_Science>

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <
henrik.bengtsson at ucsf.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Simon Urbanek <
> simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> One issue I have with this is that it doesn't point to the original
> GitHub
> >> repositories of the packages, so you end up with additional
> repositories on
> >> Github in Gabor's name that have nothing to do with the actual Github
> >> repositories of the packages. I understand that it's technically
> necessary,
> >> but I fear it will lead to a lot of confusion...
> >
> >
> > Well, we point to the original GitHub repo is that is given in the URL
> > field. It would be nice to have an "official" field for source code
> > repository in DESCRIPTION.
> >
> > But I agree with you that this has great potential for confusion. Several
> > people have been sending pull requests to github.com/cran repos, most of
> > them not realizing that they are not the right repos to fork. (Although
> > many packages are not on GH or any other similar service, and then are
> kind
> > of the places to fork.)
> >
> > I could have a large warning popup on the link from r-pkg.org, with red
> > flags, and you would see this before the actual repo. But this has its
> own
> > problems, like being annoying after a while, how to turn it off with
> > browser cookies, etc.
> >
> > The best would be to somehow have a warning on the GitHub repo pages, but
> > there isn't a lot I can modify there if I don't want to change/add the
> > README file, which would effectively change the package. I could probably
> > add 'WARNING: this is a read-only mirror, and not the original package
> > repository' to the one-line description on the top.
> >
> > If you have other ideas, please let me know.
>
> If people send pull requests, maybe adding a generic open pull request
> to each repository with title "MIRROR ONLY: Do not send pull requests
> here" would help.  The fancy version would be to say "MIRROR ONLY: All
> patches/pull requests should be sent to <URL>", where <URL> is from
> the DESCRIPTION field 'URL'.  That might prevent a few more.
> <blink>You can boost it with lots of colorful "WARNING", "NO
> TRESPASSING", ... labels as well</blink>.   The next level up is to
> have a service that automatically reject pull requests with an
> informative error message.
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> >
> > Gabor
> >
> >
> >> On May 24, 2015, at 5:44 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> Dear All,
> >> >>
> >> >> [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list.
> >> Maybe. ]
> >> >>
> >> >> As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a
> simple
> >> >> search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web
> >> site,
> >> >> where you can also browse CRAN packages.
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.r-pkg.org/
> >> >>
> >> >> As I see the value is in
> >> >> 1. package search (search box on top right)
> >> >> 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services
> >> >>
> >> >> It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages
> >> are a
> >> >> bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix.
> >> >
> >> > I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the
> >> > github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full!
> >> >
> >> > It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for
> >> > diff-ing?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot,
> >> >
> >> > Rainer
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Please tell me what you think.
> >> >>
> >> >> Best,
> >> >> Gabor
> >> >>
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> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Rainer M. Krug
> >> > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
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