[Rd] R-Forge > GitHub?

[Brian G. Peterson]

Spencer, on your point 3. below, we took a different path in migrating 
several packages.

After we migrated to github as the new master copy, we made new commits 
to the now orphaned R-Forge copies to include a new .onAttach function 
as so:

.onAttach <- function(libname, pkgname) {
   repo <- "https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecdat  <https://github.com/braverock/quantstrat>"
   packageStartupMessage(
     "WARNING: this package was installed from R-Forge, but development has\n",
     "moved to GitHub. Please re-install the package using the GitHub repo at:\n",
     repo, ".")
}



And to update the README in the main pkg/ dir on R-Forge.

So all the old references in talks, papers, StackOverflow, whatever will 
point to the R-Forge version, but the R-Forge version will point anyone 
to github.

Regards,

Brian

On 6/28/19 12:00 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> 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
>> http://singmann.org
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