I understand the fragmentation concerns, just felt the mirrors should have
been maintained at least until a reasonable alternative exists.
The diverging history issues should be resolvable by resetting the state to
the canonical bioconductor repository and force pushing necessary changes
to their
tember 6, 2017 11:21:34 AM
To: Jim Hester
Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor-mirror permanently removed August 25th
Hi Jim
We are more worried about the confusion it creates among the users.
Users have tried to push their commits to the bioconductor-mirror instead
On 09/06/2017 11:28 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
I agree with Jim. It has been very useful to have the Bioconductor GitHub
mirror to examine code, and the CRAN mirror as well. A post-hook to push
there would be very useful.
The mirror causes tremendous confusion on several fronts.
The updates c
Hi Jim
We are more worried about the confusion it creates among the users.
Users have tried to push their commits to the bioconductor-mirror instead of
the bioconductor git server. Another source of confusion is, some maintainers
have forked their packages from the Bioconductor-mirror, and have
I agree with Jim. It has been very useful to have the Bioconductor GitHub
mirror to examine code, and the CRAN mirror as well. A post-hook to push
there would be very useful.
-Robert
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:07 AM Jim Hester wrote:
> This mirror could be relatively simply supported by setting
This mirror could be relatively simply supported by setting up an
additional remote in the server side repositories and adding a post-receive
hook to each repository that simply pushes to the GitHub mirror remote
after commits are received.
https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
Hi Maintainers,
The Bioconductor-mirror has been permanently deprecated. Please do not use this
anymore.
Best,
Nitesh
> On Aug 17, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Turaga, Nitesh
> wrote:
>
> Hi Maintainers,
>
> The https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror is now stale after Bioconductor’s
> git transiti
Hi Maintainers,
The https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror is now stale after Bioconductor’s
git transition. We are no longer going to support it, and will be taking it
offline permanently on August 25th (next Friday).
If you have “forked” a repository from the Bioconductor-mirror, you will be
