Hi all, The next version of Bioconductor will be 3.0 and its release schedule is now up on our website:
http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ ...and is as follows: # Bioconductor 3.0 Release Schedule This release will use R-3.1.1 (Sock it to Me). ## Tentative schedule ### September 16, 2014 * Packages for deprecation identified. ### 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. _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
