[Bioc-devel] Policies regarding forked packages

[Ali Sajid Imami]

Hi,

I have a question about your policies regarding forked packages. There is a package that some of our other packages depend on and is of interest to the Bioconductor community that our lab did not create. However, the package was never submitted to CRAN or BioConductor, and the original authors are not reachable. It has not been updated in over 7 years, and consequently, it does not build. It is, however, licensed under the MIT license. To ensure our build systems and analysis pipelines keep working, we forked this package a while back and have been maintaining that fork. What is the policy regarding submitting this package to Bioconductor? Our lab is well-versed in the package’s codebase, and we would be able to both maintain it indefinitely and be able to address any comments from the BioConductor community.





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