[Rd] R-Forge > GitHub?

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Henrik Singmann et al.:


       Thanks for the suggestions.  I tried again to pull 
"https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecdat" from R-Forge, with the same 
"Error 500" as before.  Then I tried pulling from 
"https://github.com/rforge/ecdat", which seemed to work ... AND the copy 
I pulled was at the latest revisions I had posted to R-Forge (520), so 
that makes it easier going forward.


       What do you suggest I do next?  I'm thinking of the following:


             1.  Clone a copy of "https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecdat" 
to my local computer and confirm that it works.


             2.  Modify "https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ecdat/" 
to make me the only remaining project member, if I can.


             3.  Contact GitHub support and ask them if they can delete 
"https://github.com/rforge/ecdat", because it is an orphan with 0 
contributors, and anyone who might want it should be referred to 
"https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecdat".


              4.  Email all the previous project members on 
"https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ecdat/" to tell them what I've 
done, in case they want to do anything more with this in the future.


       I believe I know how to do 1, 2, and 4, and I can probably figure 
out 3.  However, before I start on this, I felt a need to thank everyone 
who contributed to this thread and invite comments, especially if 
someone thinks I might be better off doing something different.


       Spencer Graves


On 2019-06-26 16:34, Henrik Singmann wrote:
> Whereas it is true that one has to contact GitHub to detach a GitHub 
> repository, it really is no problem (or at least was no problem in 
> 2016). I wanted to do so when I took over the maintainer role of 
> LaplacesDemon which only remained on GitHub as a fork on some other 
> person's private account. So I forked and then contacted 
> GitHub support and simply asked them to remove the "forked form" 
> reference on my new repository. They then quickly detached my 
> repository. As you can see, the "forked from" is gone: 
> https://github.com/LaplacesDemonR/LaplacesDemon
>
> In their response to my request they used the phrasing "Fork is 
> detached." which suggests that this is their preferred term for this 
> step.
>
> Best,
> Henrik
>
>
>
> Am Mi., 26. Juni 2019 um 16:38 Uhr schrieb Lionel Henry 
> <lionel using rstudio.com <mailto:lionel using rstudio.com>>:
>
>
>     > On 26 Jun 2019, at 17:25, Duncan Murdoch
>     <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > R-Forge is mirrored on Github; see
>     https://github.com/rforge/ecdat, for example.  That shows 418
>     commits in its history; presumably that's the full R-forge
>     history.  I think that's newer than Michael Friendly's gist.
>     >
>     > So I suspect (but haven't tried to do this) that migration now
>     is as simple as doing a Github fork to your own Github account,
>     and then basically forgetting about the R-forge stuff, or deleting
>     it (and I don't know how to do that).
>
>     I think it's better to avoid the Fork button in this case, because
>     forks are
>     treated specially in the Github UI. In this case you'll want your
>     repo to
>     appear as a main repo, and not a fork. AFAIK the only way to
>     unfork a repo
>     is to ask the Github staff to do it.
>
>     So instead of forking, use the "+" button on github.com
>     <http://github.com> and select
>     "Import a repository". This supports both git and svn repos.
>
>     Best,
>     Lionel
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>
> -- 
> Dr. Henrik Singmann
> Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
> University of Warwick, UK
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