[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.0 release schedule now available
Dan Tenenbaum
dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Fri Sep 5 01:17:50 CEST 2014
Hi all,
The next version of Bioconductor will be 3.0 and its release schedule is now up on our website:
http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/
...and is as follows:
# Bioconductor 3.0 Release Schedule
This release will use R-3.1.1 (Sock it to Me).
## Tentative schedule
### September 16, 2014
* Packages for deprecation identified.
### September 23
* All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines.
* Deadline for first-pass .db0 packages to be available for developers.
### September 25
* Deadline for new package submissions.
* Deadline for release candidate .db0 packages to be available
for developers.
### September 29
* Release candidate of annotation packages built and posted to devel
annotation data repository.
### October 2
* Deadline for packages passing ''R CMD build'' and ''R CMD check''
without error.
### October 6
* Grand Feature Freeze (alpha): no new packages added to BioC
release roster.
### October 8
* Bioconductor Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC.
* Deadline for packages passing R CMD build and check without warning.
Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing
list.
* Stop release (BioC 2.14) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.
* Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages.
### October 10
* Bioconductor release candidate. Package maintainers should limit
changes to "show-stopper" bugs and documentation improvements.
* Annotation data packages finalized.
* Package NEWS files updated. Latest NEWS will be collated and included
in release announcement.
### October 13
* Creation of the BioC 3.0 release branch. Development can resume on
trunk, but changes will not be part of the release.
* Build final release repositories.
* Test install scripts, GUI installation.
### October 14
* Bioconductor release.
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