From dtenenba at fredhutch.org  Tue May 26 20:01:18 2015
From: dtenenba at fredhutch.org (Dan Tenenbaum)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 11:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "G?bor Cs?rdi" <csardi.gabor at gmail.com>
> To: "Gabriel Becker" <gmbecker at ucdavis.edu>
> Cc: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>, "Rainer M Krug" <Rainer at krugs.de>, r-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:55:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Gabriel Becker
> <gmbecker at ucdavis.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > That's true, but issues, checkouts, comments, credit, etc should
> > all be
> > going to the original repo.
> 
> 
> You mean the links? They are, aren't they?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > >From the email Gabor just sent out, it sounds like he and I agree
> > >about
> > this stuff anyway. I was really responding to the proposal that the
> > repositories actually be forked.
> >
> 
> I cannot do much about that. Issues and wiki are turned off, but you
> cannot
> turn off forking or pull requests. 

No, but you can set up a 'bot' which listens for pull requests and then immediately denies them with a customizable message, perhaps giving people the url where they should be making their pull requests. Example:

https://github.com/bioconductor/prbot

Dan



> Even the official mirrors at
> GitHub have
> them, e.g. the Apache Spark mirror at https://github.com/apache/spark
> 
> And I don't actually want to turn off forks for these repos, because
> they
> are useful for repos that are originally not on CRAN.
> 
> Anyway, in summary I'll try to do a better job at directing people to
> the
> original sources.
> 
> Gabor
> 
> [...]
> 
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[Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
Dan Tenenbaum