[Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Re: Bioconductor 3.6 release: update NEWS

[Obenchain, Valerie]

Hi,

You have a couple of options described on the ?news man page. The most common is to have a NEWS plain text file at the same level as DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, R etc. For examples, you could look at a variety of Bioconductor packages, GenomicRanges, IRanges, Rsamtools etc.

?news also describes the inst/NEWS.Rd approach where the .Rd file needs to follow standard formatting with \itemize, \subsection etc.

Thanks for pointing out the link on the Package Submission page. I think that should be updated to point to ?news.

Valerie




On 10/14/2017 08:05 AM, Stian Lågstad wrote:
Hi,

What should the NEWS file look like? Are there guidelines somewhere?

Also, where should it be located? This page<https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/package-submission/> says `inst/NEWS`, but I see many packages has the file at root level.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Obenchain, Valerie <Valerie.Obenchain at roswellpark.org<mailto:Valerie.Obenchain at roswellpark.org>> wrote:
Package maintainers,

If you haven't already, please update the NEWS files in your packages. This information will be included in the release announcement. The deadline for updating NEWS files is Tuesday, October 24:

http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/

Thanks.

Valerie


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