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[Bioc-devel] Process to rename a bioconductor package

6 messages · Adrian Altenhoff, Shepherd, Lori, Turaga, Nitesh

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Adrian Altenhoff
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Dear all,

we would like to rename or own bioconductor package 'roma' --> 'oma' (as
there exists another software tool with that name that could be
misleading). So far the package is only in the development version. Is
there a standard process how to proceed with such requests?

Thanks!
Adrian
3 days later
Shepherd, Lori
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We can assist we renaming -


However - we would not recommend "oma"  as that is also rather short and ambiguous, especially considering that is the exact abbreviated name of the database your package accesses -


Could you come up with perhaps a more unambigious and meaningful name?

for example here are some existing rest api for databases:

KEGGREST : Client-side REST access to KEGG

goTools:  Functions for Gene Ontology database

IMPCdata:  Retrieves data from IMPC database
InterMineR:  R Interface with InterMine-Powered Databases

BgeeDB:  Annotation and gene expression data retrieval from Bgee database


maybe something along those lines?




Lori Shepherd

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263
2 days later
Shepherd, Lori
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If this renaming is to happen, it needs to happen before this Friday -  Please respond!  The previous email sent:


We can assist we renaming -

However - we would not recommend "oma"  as that is also rather short and ambiguous, especially considering that is the exact abbreviated name of the database your package accesses -

Could you come up with perhaps a more unambigious and meaningful name?

for example here are some existing rest api for databases:

KEGGREST : Client-side REST access to KEGG
goTools:  Functions for Gene Ontology database

IMPCdata:  Retrieves data from IMPC database
InterMineR:  R Interface with InterMine-Powered Databases

BgeeDB:  Annotation and gene expression data retrieval from Bgee database

maybe something along those lines?




Lori Shepherd

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263
1 day later
Adrian Altenhoff
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Dear Lori,


thanks for helping with this. We appreciate your concern about the
ambiguity of the name. In our opinion the best option would be to rename
it to 'OmaDB' to emphases both OMA and the fact that it queries a database.

We would be very glad if you could initiate the process for rename then.


Best wishes & thanks for your help again!

Adrian
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      Turaga, Nitesh
    

    

      
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Hi Adrian,

I?ve changed your package name from roma to ?OmaDB?. 

You should change your GitHub repo?s name as well "https://github.com/klarakaleb/roma? ?> https://github.com/klarakaleb/OmaDB. 

You can do this by, https://github.com/klarakaleb/roma/settings, and there will be an option to rename your repository.

Best,

Nitesh

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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Hi Nitesh,

thanks a lot for the prompt reply. We renamed the github repo as well.
Is there anything else we need to do except from adopting the new name
in the package itself?

Best Adrian

        
On 26/04/18 17:42, Turaga, Nitesh wrote: