[Bioc-devel] reverting to older version

Samsiddhi Bhattacharjee @b@@t@tgen @ending from gm@il@com
Tue Jun 12 03:33:51 CEST 2018


Thanks, I shall do that. Its OK to keep the master as 1.99.0 ? It should
probably have been 1.19.1 ?


On Monday, June 11, 2018, Hervé Pagès <hpages using fredhutch.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Having a package that is known to be broken in release is not
> really an option.
>
> How about replacing all the files in the RELEASE_3_7 branch
> with what's in the master branch. For the version, just bump
> z (in x.y.z) to its next version. Don't touch x or y. So the
> version would become 1.18.1 in release. Then commit (it's going
> to be a single commit) with a commit message that says something
> like "Resync with master branch".
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
> On 06/11/2018 09:27 AM, Samsiddhi Bhattacharjee wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am maintainer of package ASSET. We have recently discovered some issues
>> (most importantly computational speed issues) with recent versions of our
>> package and wanted to revert the code to an older version ASSET v 1.8.0
>> present in Bioconductor release 3.2, before proceeding to make further
>> enhancements to the package.
>>
>> In release 3.3 , there were major changes to the package, it is like a
>> branch that we now realize that we need to abandon. We had introduced a
>> new
>> feature and for that we switched from deterministic p-value calculation to
>> stochastic calculation. We did not notice the issues untill now. We want
>> to
>> switch back to the deterministic one, which was present last in 3.2.
>>
>> As suggested by Nitesh, I have made the changes in devel branch (basically
>> by copying the code as it was in release 3.2, and only updating the
>> DESCRIPTION file make the version 1.99.0 as this will be a major change
>> (although we are taking a few steps back, we will probably add some steps
>> forward before release 3.8).
>>
>> I wanted to put a .onAttach() message in the current version to make the
>> user aware of the issues and possibly mentioning the next release and/or
>> pointing to the older release. However, as Herve
>> has pointed out, people may mix up devel and release versions causing
>> problems. Hence Herve had suggested:
>>
>> "It will be much better if you actually fix the release version of your
>> package. This should just be a matter of porting the fixes you do in devel
>> with 'git cherry-pick'."
>>
>> Reason I am hesitating is that the changes (diff of 3.7 and 3.2) are quite
>> a lot and doing selective changes as suggested will introduce further
>> bugs,
>> and even after selection these changes will be *many*. Is it ok to
>> backport
>> a "patch" to the release with a large number of changes? If yes, what
>> should the version number be bumped to?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Samsiddhi
>>
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