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Message-ID: <fd249e4e-c13e-2066-1a0c-3a0ff9a6ecb3@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-04-21T13:39:55Z
From: Valerie Obenchain
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.5 release: April 7 deadlines
In-Reply-To: <CAEiDEr8PKtpk247hwmp-tdmwV09bKHxz_kYwC8gSgQK5vJHveQ@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, that's what the API freeze means. The goal is to prevent last 
minute changes in chimeraviz from breaking downstream packages that 
depend on chimeraviz. By the way, the API freeze was Friday, April 7.

Valerie


On 04/21/2017 03:21 AM, Stian L?gstad wrote:
> I've added a new function to my package chimeraviz (so far it's in a 
> separate branch and not commited to Bioconductor). Does the API freeze 
> mean that I have to wait until the Bioconductor release before I 
> commit it to the devel branch?
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Valerie Obenchain <vobencha at gmail.com 
> <mailto:vobencha at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Some recent activity has caused some (red) ripples across the
>     builds and the El Capitan Mac builds are still unsettled. To
>     accommodate, we're extending the deadline to pass R CMD build and
>     check with no errors to next Friday
>     (http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/
>     <http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/>).
>     Thanks to everyone for cleaning up their packages and
>     communicating problems (and solutions!) on the lists.
>
>     Key deadlines for April 7 are
>
>     - No new packages added to the 3.5 roster
>
>     - No more API changes
>
>     - Current release 3.4 builds will stop
>
>     - Annotation packages (both internal and contributed) posted to
>     the 3.5 repo
>
>     Valerie
>
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