Anonymous access link/token for journal editor/review

Hey Pieter!!

First of all, great initiative! I've already been using github for a while and his seems like the perfect interface for making experimental data publicly accessible.

Thanks, its such words that keep us going!

Nowadays, journals often like to directly see the source data and pass on access to anonymous reviewers. A feature that might be very useful to add would be to have an option to grant access to a single private repository using a private link or access token. I have no idea how to implement this, but it would be great if this was possible or if anyone can help me set this up if it is already possible.

Agreed, and we have been thinking about this. However, currently its a bit hard ~~impossible~~ to implement access without an account or access tokens created per repository...

Here are several workarounds:

Just create an account using another email address (can be deleted later - maybe add the reason in the user description). For that user, an access token might be created and/or the password provided with the submission. Then share the repository with that user.
You might also consider to just share invite the repository with a secondary email address and accept it. This way the sharing is setup automatically. Anything else as above
Make the repository public but don't list it (not really save - but maybe good enough for many cases).

Hope that helps a bit!

All the Best

Christian

Hi,

First of all, great initiative! I've already been using github for a while and this seems like the perfect interface for making experimental data publicly accessible.

Many thanks, Pieter

Hey Christian, Thanks a lot for the rapid reply and the info, I can work with that. Cheers, Pieter

pgoltstein closed 6 years ago

#10 Anonymous access link/token for journal editor/review