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 can be not robust for a number of reasons (likely less so now that we use git).

The 'definitive' source is git.bioconductor.org, not the github mirror, and of course developers often have their own github repository. We regularly receive queries from developers trying to push to the mirror, users trying to post issues on the mirror, etc.

We have explored a couple of alternative approaches. It seems likely that the rss feed / svn log at

  http://bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/

can be easily re-enabled. We've also looked at gitweb for browsing, which looks like

  https://root.cern.ch/gitweb/

and is 'different enough' from github that users / developers wouldn't get confused (and it would allow source-level browsing of the actual repository).

Further discussion welcome.

Martin


-Robert

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:07 AM Jim Hester <james.f.hes...@gmail.com> wrote:

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
https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/

Having an easily browsable source repository online is a pretty valuable
thing, it is a shame to lose this.

Jim

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Turaga, Nitesh <
nitesh.tur...@roswellpark.org> wrote:

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 fine. It will not have any consequence on your repository, the only
change will be the “forked from bioconductor-mirror” tag will be removed.


Best,

Nitesh



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