[Bioc-devel] Important Bioconductor Release 3.18 deadlines this week

[Kern, Lori]

The deadline for fixing packages in preparation for the release is this Friday October 20th. All packages should be installing, building, and checking without ERROR in the Bioconductor build report.  While you can continue to push changes past this date, this ensures all changes are reflected in at least one build report before the code freeze for release.  Packages that continue to show ERRORs in the build report after the release will be consideration for deprecation. We are on schedule to release Wednesday October 25th.

Please also remember to update your NEWS files for any information about changes to your packages during this last development cycle.  Bioconductor collates all package news files as part of the release announcement. If your NEWS file is not formatted correctly and not updated by this weekend, it will not be included in the release announcement.

For clarification:
The release 3.18 branch has not yet been created.  Please continue to update the devel branch.
Next week when the release occurs the core team will automatically create the RELEASE_3_18 branch on git.bioconductor.org but until that time the only branch accessible is devel.  Do NOT try to create a RELEASE_3_18 branch on your own; the core team will do this for you.  Bioconductor will also handle bumping the y of a package version x.y.z  on release day.

Cheers,


Lori Shepherd - Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263


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