Hello Bioconductors, The release schedule of Bioconductor 2.12 is up on our website: http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ ...and is as follows: # Bioconductor 2.12 Release Schedule ## Tentative schedule ### March 4, 2013 * Packages for deprecation identified. ### March 11 * All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines. http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/package-guidelines/ * Deadline for .db0 packages to be available for developers. ### March 13 * Deadline for new package submissions. ### March 15 * Release candidate of annotation packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository. ### March 18 * Deadline for packages passing ''R CMD build'' and ''R CMD check'' without error. ### March 22 * Grand Feature Freeze (alpha): no new packages added to BioC release roster. ### March 25 * Bioconductor Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC. * Deadline for packages passing R CMD build and check without warning. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list. * Stop release (BioC 2.11) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled. * Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages. ### March 28 * Bioconductor release candidate. Package maintainers should limit changes to "show-stopper" bugs and documentation improvements. * Annotation data packages finalized. * Package NEWS files updated. Latest NEWS will be collated and included in release announcement. ### April 3 * Creation of the BioC 2.12 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes will not be part of the release. * Build final release repositories. * Test install scripts, GUI installation. ### April 4 * Bioconductor release.
[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 2.12 release schedule
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