Bioconductor 3.8 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.5.1 (“Feather Spray”).

Monday September 24

• Announce new package submission deadline of October 5.

Monday October 1

• Announce deprecated packages for Bioc 3.8. They’ll be removed from Bioc 3.9. See End of Life for details.

Friday October 5

• Deadline for new package submissions.

Monday October 8

• .db0 packages available for developers.

Monday October 15

• Stop building Bioc 3.7, current release. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

• Start building Bioc 3.9, new devel.

Friday October 19

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

Wednesday October 24

• No API changes to Bioc 3.8.

• Deadline to add new packages to the BiocC 3.8 manifest.

• Contributed annotation packages posted to devel annotation data repository.

Friday October 26

• 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.

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

Monday October 29

• Last day to commit changes to the Bioc 3.8 branch. NEWS files must be updated before the builds start at 4:45pm EST or they will not be included in the release announcement.

  The branch will be frozen prior to creating the release branch on Tuesday, October 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.

Tuesday October 30

• Creation of the Bioc 3.8 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes there will not be part of the release.

Wednesday October 31

• Bioconductor release.

Post-release

• Build AMIs for release and devel

• Build Dockers for release and devel

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

• Identify packages to be deprecated in the new devel, Bioc 3.9. This includes packages with errors and unresponsive maintainers.