Package developers -- Each Bioconductor release is accompanied by release notes that mention new packages and other significant project developments. For the forthcoming release we will include release notes for individual packages, so that users have an easy way to survey changes in their favorite packages.
To have your package release notes made available in the Bioconductor release notes, please arrange for your package to include a NEWS.Rd or NEWS file that can be parsed by the utils::news function (please make sure this function runs without error on your package, or your package NEWS will not be included in the release announcement). We'll run this command over all packages, using a 'query' argument that captures all updates more recent than the start of the current release cycle. For instance, Rsamtools in the devel branch is at version "1.23.9", so we'll get news with > utils::news(Version >= "1.23.0", "Rsamtools") Note that both NEWS and NEWS.Rd files are NOT free-form text files, they each have specific formats they must adhere to. See the Rsamtools NEWS file (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/news/Rsamtools/NEWS) for an example of the correct format for NEWS. See ?news for more detail. We will collate these files no later than Friday, April 29 at 5PM Seattle time. Also, please make sure your biocViews are up-to-date/valid/relevant. This is important because this is one of the main ways people will find your package. Refer to: http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/biocViews/ Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
