[Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!

From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
To: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:55:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!



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From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
To: "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:33:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support
site!

Interesting move.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
wrote:

Hello!

This is a message to announce the beta test for our new support
site.
We hope to replace the regular Bioconductor mailing list with
this
site soon and we have imported the past 11+ years of mailing list
discussion into this new site.  If you would like to help us test
it
out you can do that by logging in here:

https://support.bioconductor.org

For those of you who have posted to the bioconductor mailing list
before, you will probably want to recover your well earned
reputation
from previous posts and answers.  To do that you will need to
scroll
to the bottom of the log in page and click the link that says
'Forgot
Password?'.  This should get you started with your mailing list
email
address which will already be linked to your previous posts.

Since someone else is going to ask the same: What if you've used
multiple addresses in the past, e.g. I seem to have 3+ user
accounts
in my name. Can they be merged?

If some of the accounts are with providers listed at
https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/social/connections/ you
can "connect" them on that page.

If not, I don't know off the top of my head. I'll research it and get
back to you.

/Henrik

And if you have never posted, then you can start a new account
from
that same page.

As you explore the beta, you may come across things that you
would
like to see changed or that you feel are not working right.  This
site
is based on a fork of Biostars, and we ask that you please post
such
questions to our github repository for this:

https://github.com/Bioconductor/support.bioconductor.org/issues

We aspire to switch over to this new site in early September, but
we are
leaving the schedule flexible depending on how well the beta site
works.  Also: please note that posts made to the new site during
the
beta will dissappear after the test period.  We want you to help
us
test it, but this is not the live deployment phase quite yet.

I expect there will probably be some other questions about this
big
transition. So please ask them as needed and we will try to
answer
them the best we can.


  Marc