[Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches

[Yinming Jiao]

Dear Dan

It's great that we have notification on the package versions.  Many Thanks for your efforts on the maintanence. 
However, I have a question that why so many packages do not support R 3.2, and this problem is so tough that people have to reinstall other R version and roconstruct their pipeline upside down. 
Is there some actions to mail the authors and promote the updation of such packages?

Kind regards
Yinming
> -----原始邮件-----
> 发件人: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> 发送时间: 2016年6月13日 星期一
> 收件人: "Yu, Guangchuang" <gcyu at connect.hku.hk>
> 抄送: bioc-devel <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> 主题: Re: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yu, Guangchuang" <gcyu at connect.hku.hk>
> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 1:44:12 AM
> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I found many peoples still using (and asking questions of) out-dated branch
> > of Bioconductor packages that are no longer maintained.
> > 
> > I think it would be great to have a message notifying them when they are
> > browsing the web page of out-dated branches, just like we have a message
> > for devel branch.
> > 
> > For example, for BioC 3.2, a message like:
> > 
> > This is the BioC 3.2 version of XXX_pkg; for the current stable release
> > version, see XXX_pkg_url.
> > 
> > would be helpful.
> > 
> 
> We have implemented your suggestion for package landing pages for old versions 2.8 through 3.2.
> For technical reasons, it will take a little longer to implement this for versions prior to 2.8.
> 
> We try to make sure that search engines do not index old package landing pages, but 
> people sometimes still link to a particular version of a package landing page in publications, etc.
> As Martin points out, it's best to use the "short URL" of the package, for example:
> 
> https://bioconductor.org/packages/a4/
> 
> If you click on that page and go to the bottom you will see a line saying
> "Package Short Url". And then if you mouse over the short url it says
> 
> "Canonical url for use in publications, etc., will always redirect to current release version (or devel if package is not in release yet).".
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> > Best wishes,
> > Guangchuang
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