[Bioc-devel] Urgent minor deployment of a release?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 5:46 PM Vincent Carey
<stvjc using channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam, thanks for your note.
>
> Changes to release branch sources must be limited to bug fixes or doc
> improvement.  Any new features
> must be introduced only in the devel branch.

I know about this, but I wanted to find what the document exactly says
about this. I'm sure it's documented somewhere, but I just spend 10-15
min on the website trying, but I couldn't find it.  What I was looking
specifically for was "new features".  For instance, would one be
allowed to introduce a 100% backward compatible new features to the
Bioc release branch? For instance, assume you currently have

h <- function(x, ...) {
  sum(x)
}

in the release branch, would it be okay to add:

h <- function(x, na.rm = FALSE, ...) {
  sum(x, na.rm = na.rm)
}

?  This is how base-R itself does it in their patch releases, e.g. R
4.3.0 -> R 4.3.1.

/Henrik

> Any features to be removed
> must be indicated as
> deprecated for one release and then labeled as defunct.  See
>
> http://contributions.bioconductor.org/deprecation.html
>
> for guidan
> Changes to release branch sources must be limited to bug fixes or doc
> improvement.
> ce on feature removal.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 10:11 AM Park, Adam Keebum <sein.park using psu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wonder if there is any room for deploying a modification to a released
> > library(retrofit, 3.17), which was released last month.
> >
> > We are in a progress of a paper review, so the release schedule (twice
> > each year) does not perfectly fit our need.
> >
> > Or do you think we should have used "devel" for such purposes?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Adam.
> >
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