[Bioc-devel] question regarding change to release version of package

[Jim Hester]

Samuel,

Only documentation and bug fixes should be back-ported to the release
branch. This issue would classify as a documentation fix so would be a
valid change.

The naming ambiguities can be resolved by specifying an `Authors at R` block
in your DESCRIPTION file.

```
Authors at R: c(person("Jessica", "Mar", role = "aut"),
        person("Laurence", "De Torrente", role = "aut"),
        person("Samuel", "Zimmerman", role = c("aut", "cre"),
          email = "sezimmer at einstein.yu.edu"))
```

This change allows us to now generate a correctly formatted citation.

```r
citation("pathVar")
#>
#> To cite package 'pathVar' in publications use:
#>
#>   Jessica Mar, Laurence De Torrente and Samuel Zimmerman (2015).
#>   pathVar: Methods to Find Pathways with Significantly Different
#>   Variability. R package version 1.1.0.
#>
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#>
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {pathVar: Methods to Find Pathways with Significantly
Different
#> Variability},
#>     author = {Jessica Mar and Laurence {De Torrente} and Samuel
Zimmerman},
#>     year = {2015},
#>     note = {R package version 1.1.0},
#>   }
```

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Samuel E Zimmerman <
sezimmer at einstein.yu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Bioc-devel users,
>
> One of the authors of our package realized that the first letter of her
> last name was not capitalized in the description file of the package. Would
> it be okay to update the release version of the package to change something
> small like this so we don't have to wait 6 months for the change to be made
> public? Also, the citation on our landing page is incorrect because the
> program used to populate the page recognizes part of her first name as her
> middle name. Is there a way to customize the citation?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Sam
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