Bioconductor 3.4 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.3.1 (Bug in Your Hair) unless 3.3.2 comes out in time (would need to be at least 1 week before release day though).

Tentative schedule

Tuesday September 20, 2016

• Packages for deprecation identified.

Monday September 26

• Deadline for new package submissions.

• All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines.

• .db0 packages available for developers.

Monday October 3

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

Friday October 7

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

• Bioconductor Feature Freeze: no API changes to BioC.

Wednesday October 12

• No new packages added to BioC release roster.

• Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages.

• Stop release (BioC 3.3) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

Thursday October 13

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

• Annotation data packages finalized.

• Start rebuilding/checking workflows.

Friday October 14

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

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

Monday October 17

• Creation of the BioC 3.4 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 October 18

• Bioconductor release.