Why not write your own *readme.md* file for the package and put the link there? There is nothing stopping the maintainer from having a README file in the package. Although it does not show up on the Bioconductor page, it shows up nicely on Github:
My package: https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/categoryCompare https://github.com/rmflight/categoryCompare -Robert On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:43 AM Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> wrote: > It would be cool if we could somehow get the equivalent of the > bioconductor package page to show up as the "readme" on the github > page. Or at least, if there could be a very obvious link from the > mirror repository to the maintainer repository, without having to > click through to the Bioconductor package page, which might confuse > new users a bit. > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > wrote: > > Dear Bioconductors, > > > > We're pleased to announce the availability of Bioconductor Git Mirrors. > > These are read-only GitHub repositories (available under > https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror) > > for every Bioconductor software package. These repositories are > synchronized with our > > Subversion repository. Package maintainers (or anyone else) can fork > these repositories > > and do their development on the fork. Complete documentation of the > mirrors is at > > > > http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirror/ > > > > These mirrors supersede the Git-SVN bridge, which is now deprecated. > > Creation of new bridges is disabled and maintainers who are using the > bridge > > should migrate to the Git mirrors as soon as it's convenient, as the > bridge > > will eventually go away. Instructions for migrating can be found at the > above link. > > > > Some features of the new Git Mirrors, and why we feel they are a better > solution than the Git-SVN bridge: > > > > - The mirrors contain complete commit history. > > - The mirrors contain release branches for Bioconductor 3.0 and 3.1, and > > new releases will be added as they happen. You will no longer need > > separate repositories for release and devel. > > - Setup is easy and you no longer have to grant any permissions on your > > repository to other users. You can commit directly to Subversion > > using git-svn (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn). > > - Each git commit appears in the SVN log as a distinct SVN commit; > commits > > are no longer grouped together as they were with the bridge. Each git > > commit can be mapped to a specific svn commit, and vice versa. > > - The Git mirrors are much more reliable. > > - Use is flexible. You can use git locally (without GitHub) or you > > can use GitHub as well, to take advantage of all its social coding > features. > > - Using GitHub's code search, you can search the entire Bioconductor > codebase. > > Here's a sample search: https://goo.gl/jI92Ys > > - Subversion is fully supported and remains the cannonical repository; > use > > of Git and GitHub is optional. > > > > We are excited about these new mirrors (brought to you by the hard > > work of Jim Hester) and we hope you are too. Questions and comments are > > welcome on the bioc-devel mailing list. > > > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
