Bioconductor 3.0 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.1.1 (Sock it to Me).

Tentative schedule

September 23

• All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines.

• Deadline for first-pass .db0 packages to be available for developers.

September 25

• Deadline for new package submissions.

• Deadline for release candidate .db0 packages to be available for developers.

September 29

• Release candidate of annotation packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository.

October 2

• Deadline for packages passing ''R CMD build'' and ''R CMD check'' without error.

October 6

• Grand Feature Freeze (alpha): no new packages added to BioC release roster.

October 8

• Bioconductor Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC.

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

• Stop release (BioC 2.14) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

• Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages.

October 10

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

• Annotation data packages finalized.

• Package NEWS files updated. Latest NEWS will be collated and included in release announcement.

October 13

• Creation of the BioC 3.0 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes will not be part of the release.

• Build final release repositories.

• Test install scripts, GUI installation.

October 14

• Bioconductor release.