[Bioc-devel] Package name

[Wolfgang Huber]

This is probably a niche concern, but  I’d find it a pity if a good package name (*) became unavailable forever, esp. if it refers to a real-world concept not owned by the authors of the original package.
Perhaps we could allow re-using a name after a grace period (say 1 or 2 years)?
To be extra safe, one could also require the first version number of the new package be much higher than the last version of the old (dead) package.

(*) One example I have in mind where we re-used the name of an extinct project is rhdf5.

Kind regards
Wolfgang

> Il giorno 21ott2021, alle ore 13:39, Kern, Lori <Lori.Shepherd using RoswellPark.org> ha scritto:
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> Good point.  I'll open an issue on the github to fix.
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> Lori Shepherd
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> Bioconductor Core Team
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> Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
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> Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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> Elm & Carlton Streets
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> Buffalo, New York 14263
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> The Package Guidelines for Developers and Reviewers say that:
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> A package name should be descriptive and should not already exist as a current package (case-insensitive) in Bioconductor nor CRAN.
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> The sentences says current packages - does that imply that names of packages that have been archived (on CRAN) or deprecated (on Bioconductor) are available? This is likely to lead to serious confusion.
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> Laurent
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