Bioconductor 3.7 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.5.0 (“Joy in Playing”).

Monday March 26

• Announce new package deadline of April 2.

Monday April 2

• Announce deprecated packages for BioC 3.7. They’ll be removed from BioC 3.8. See End of Life for details.

• Deadline for new package submissions.

Monday April 9

• .db0 packages available for developers.

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

Wednesday April 11

• Stop building BioC 3.6, current release. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

Monday April 16

• TxDb, OrgDb packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository.

• Contributed annotation packages posted to devel annotation data repository.

• Bioconductor Feature Freeze:
  • No API changes to BioC 3.7.
  • No new packages added to BioC 3.7 roster.
• Start building BioC 3.8, new devel.

Wednesday April 25

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

• Deadline for NEWS files to be updated.

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

Sunday April 29

• Last day to commit changes to the Bioc 3.7 devel branch. The branch will be frozen prior to creating the release branch on Monday, April 30. Committing last minute changes could break your package in both release and devel! Be sure to run ‘R CMD build’ and ‘R CMD check’ locally before committing any changes.

Monday April 30

• Creation of the BioC 3.7 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes there will not be part of the release.

Tuesday May 1

• Bioconductor release.

Post-release

Wednesday May 2

• Build AMIs for release and devel

• Build Dockers for release and devel

• Packages marked as deprecated in BioC 3.7 are now removed from the BioC 3.8 nightly builds.

• Identify packages to be deprecated in the new devel, BioC 3.8. This includes packages with errors and unresponsive maintainers.