Bioconductor 2.12 Release Schedule

Tentative schedule

March 4, 2013

• Packages for deprecation identified.

March 11

• All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines.

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

March 13

• Deadline for new package submissions.

March 15

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

March 18

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

March 22

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

March 25

• 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 2.11) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

• Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages.

March 28

• 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.

April 3

• Creation of the BioC 2.12 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.

April 4

• Bioconductor release.