[Bioc-devel] Important Bioconductor Release Deadlines

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hello,

these days, it's quite straight forward to have multiple versions of R
installed in parallel without them conflicting with each other. I know
it works out of the box on MS Windows (just install all versions you'd
like), and I know there are various tools to achieve the same on
macOS.  I'm on Linux, and I build R from source, so that solves it for
me.  What's platform are you working on?  If you share that, I think
you'll get 1-2-3 instructions for how to install R 4.4 pre-release
from users on that operating system.

Regarding Bioc versions being tied to specific R versions: That is a
design decision that goes back to day one of the Bioconductor project.
It's a rather big thing to change.  That said, I've always been in the
camp that thinks we should move away from that model for many reasons;
one is the friction added to developers, another is the friction added
to end-users, and some people may be stuck with older versions of R
and in no control of updating.

Hope this helps,

Henrik

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM Anatoly Sorokin <lptolik using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry for the complaint, but do you really think it is wise to make the
> new release dependent on the R version which has not released yet?
>
> I have a lot of R-related projects going on apart from maintaining the
> Bioconductor package and I'm not comfortable installing the unreleased
> version of R on my machine and spending time debugging it in the case of
> possible problems.
>
> At the same time, I have an error, possibly caused by a new version of
> GO.db package, which BioNAR is dependent upon and I can not fix it
> until the R 4.4 release on the 24th of April when I would have less than a
> day to fix the possible problem and fit into R CMD build and R CMD check by
> the Friday April 26th. Don't you think this is a rather tight time frame?
>
>
> Sorry once again, for the complaint.
>
> Cheers,
> Anatoly
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM Kern, Lori via Bioc-devel <
> bioc-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> > Import update:  The Bioconductor Release will be May 1 following the
> > release of R 4.4 on April 24.
> >
> > The Bioconductor 3.18 branch will be frozen Monday April 15th. After that
> > date, no changes will be permitted ever on that branch.
> >
> > The deadline for devel Bioconductor 3.19 for packages to pass R CMD build
> > and R CMD check is Friday April 26th. While you will still be able to make
> > commits past this date, This ensures any changes pushed to
> > git.bioconductor.org are reflected in at least one build report before
> > the devel branch will be copied to a release 3.19 branch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Lori Shepherd - Kern
> >
> > Bioconductor Core Team
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