I cannot speak for other package authors, but for all my own packages, I have provided the BugReports field in DESCRIPTION that points to the Github issues page. You can probably use this field to check if a package is on Github or not. If it is, you may just fork the original repo instead of creating a new one from the CRAN package. I'm not sure how technically difficult it would be for you. Thanks for the wonderful work!
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> > wrote: > >> One issue I have with this is that it doesn't point to the original GitHub >> repositories of the packages, so you end up with additional repositories on >> Github in Gabor's name that have nothing to do with the actual Github >> repositories of the packages. I understand that it's technically necessary, >> but I fear it will lead to a lot of confusion... > > > Well, we point to the original GitHub repo is that is given in the URL > field. It would be nice to have an "official" field for source code > repository in DESCRIPTION. > > But I agree with you that this has great potential for confusion. Several > people have been sending pull requests to github.com/cran repos, most of > them not realizing that they are not the right repos to fork. (Although > many packages are not on GH or any other similar service, and then are kind > of the places to fork.) > > I could have a large warning popup on the link from r-pkg.org, with red > flags, and you would see this before the actual repo. But this has its own > problems, like being annoying after a while, how to turn it off with > browser cookies, etc. > > The best would be to somehow have a warning on the GitHub repo pages, but > there isn't a lot I can modify there if I don't want to change/add the > README file, which would effectively change the package. I could probably > add 'WARNING: this is a read-only mirror, and not the original package > repository' to the one-line description on the top. > > If you have other ideas, please let me know. > > Gabor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
