Bioconductor 3.5 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.4.0 (“You Stupid Darkness”).

Tentative schedule

Friday March 24

• Announce deprecated / defunct packages for BioC 3.5.

• Start building/checking workflows in R devel.

Friday March 31

• Deadline for new package submissions.

• .db0 packages available for developers.

Friday April 7

• Maintainers update package NEWS files. Latest NEWS will be collated and included in release announcement.

• Annotations Deadline:
  • Core packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository.
  • Contributed packages posted to devel annotation data repository.
• Bioconductor Feature Freeze:
  • No API changes to BioC 3.5.
  • No new packages added to BioC 3.5 roster.
• Stop current release (BioC 3.4) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

Friday April 14

• Deadline for packages passing ‘‘R CMD build’’ and ‘‘R CMD check’’ without errors or warnings. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list.

• Deadline for workflows to build successfully.

• Bioconductor release candidate. Package maintainers should limit changes to “show-stopper” bugs and documentation improvements.

Wednesday April 19

• Identify packages to be ‘deprecated’ in the new devel, Bioconductor 3.6. This includes packages in 3.5 with no Landing Page (have not built this devel cycle) or those with errors and unresponsive maintainers.

• Packages ‘deprecated’ in Bioconductor 3.4 are marked as ‘defunct’ and removed from the nightly builds for Bioconductor 3.5. See End of Life for details.

Monday April 24

• Creation of the BioC 3.5 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes there will not be part of the release.

• Build final release repositories.

• Test install scripts, GUI installation.

Tuesday April 25

• Bioconductor release.

Post-release

Wednesday April 26

• Build AMIs for release and devel

• Build Dockers for release and devel

• Update Chef recipes