[Bioc-devel] Updating package NEWS files for Bioconductor 3.0 release announcement
May I suggest that people use the new'ish NEWS.Rd format where the file is placed in inst/NEWS.Rd and the content is written using Rd format. Kasper
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
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 "1.17.34", so we'll get news with
utils::news(Version >= "1.17.0", "Rsamtools")
See ?news for more detail. We will collate these files no later than Sunday, October 12 at 5PM Seattle time. Thanks, Dan
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