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On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Eric Frichot <eric.fric...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does it mean that I have to wait the next bioconductor release ? > > If it is the case, imagine that I add new features for my package, do I > have to wait the next release (every 6 month) for these features to be > available ? > Bioconductor has a twice-yearly release cycle. This is on purpose and in general is a very good thing, as it introduces some stability to the Bioconductor package ecosystem that is sorely lacking on CRAN [1]. This does mean that major new features/non-bugfix changes in the release branch break the implicit "release schedule contract" and are strongly discouraged. So yes, *new* features and major changes should only propogate every 6 months or so. Bugfixes and critical maintenance are ok. A corollary to this is that packages which are under heavy development and not ready for feature freeze (or not useful in a feature frozen state) are "not ready" to be in a release version of Bioconductor, though no such restrictions or concerns exist for Bioc-devel. Best, ~G [1] http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-1/ooms.pdf > > Thanks a lot for your help, > > Eric Frichot > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- Gabriel Becker, Ph.D Computational Biologist Genentech Research [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
