[Bioc-devel] question regarding change to release version of package

Samuel,

Only documentation and bug fixes should be back-ported to the release
branch. This issue would classify as a documentation fix so would be a
valid change.

The naming ambiguities can be resolved by specifying an `Authors at R` block
in your DESCRIPTION file.

```
Authors at R: c(person("Jessica", "Mar", role = "aut"),
        person("Laurence", "De Torrente", role = "aut"),
        person("Samuel", "Zimmerman", role = c("aut", "cre"),
          email = "sezimmer at einstein.yu.edu"))
```

This change allows us to now generate a correctly formatted citation.

```r
citation("pathVar")
#>
#> To cite package 'pathVar' in publications use:
#>
#>   Jessica Mar, Laurence De Torrente and Samuel Zimmerman (2015).
#>   pathVar: Methods to Find Pathways with Significantly Different
#>   Variability. R package version 1.1.0.
#>
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#>
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {pathVar: Methods to Find Pathways with Significantly
Different
#> Variability},
#>     author = {Jessica Mar and Laurence {De Torrente} and Samuel
Zimmerman},
#>     year = {2015},
#>     note = {R package version 1.1.0},
#>   }
```

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Samuel E Zimmerman <

Dear Bioc-devel users,

One of the authors of our package realized that the first letter of her
last name was not capitalized in the description file of the package. Would
it be okay to update the release version of the package to change something
small like this so we don't have to wait 6 months for the change to be made
public? Also, the citation on our landing page is incorrect because the
program used to populate the page recognizes part of her first name as her
middle name. Is there a way to customize the citation?

Thank you very much.

Sam

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