There exist people that use Bioconductor devel branch packages even though they are not developers and don’t subscribe to bioc-devel, so I think announcing on the support site can be appropriate.
I understand that problems might arise with & for users who do not easily handle versioning, but IMHO they are more than offset by highlightung a potentially useful package to as many people as possible as early as possible. (I haven’t checked this for a while - does ‘biocLite’ give a useful error message when asked to install a ‘devel only’ package on a system that is set up for release?) Best wishes Wolfgang > On Jun 9, 2016, at 16:48 GMT+2, Maarten van Iterson <mviter...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So the policy could be: before release to bioc-devel and after release to > the support-site. Maybe it is more useful to post only on the support-site > on release? I assume most bioc-devel subscribers follow the support-site. > > Maarten > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:29 PM, James W. MacDonald <jmac...@uw.edu> wrote: > >> I agree, but bacon is part of release. As Maarten said " >> *I would like to introduce the package bacon that has been added >> tobioconductor just before the release of version 3.3." 😁* >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Martin Morgan < >> martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote: >> >>> On 06/09/2016 10:06 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote: >>> >>>> You should post this on the support site ( >>>> https://support.bioconductor.org), >>>> using the 'News' item description. This bioc-devel is intended for >>>> discussion of issues with development of packages, not really for >>>> announcing new packages. >>>> >>> >>> actually the email to developers on package acceptance encourages them to >>> post to bioc-devel. >>> >>> I think the rationale was that the package is only available in devel, so >>> advertising on the support site would just lead to disappointment. >>> >>> Open to revised policies / suggestions, though. >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Maarten van Iterson <mviter...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear list, >>>>> >>>>> I would like to introduce the package bacon that has been added to >>>>> bioconductor just before the release of version 3.3. >>>>> >>>>> bacon can be used to estimate and control for bias and inflation often >>>>> present in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association >>>>> studies(EWAS/TWAS). The idea behind bacon is to estimate the empirical >>>>> null >>>>> distribution from the data (using Bayesian statistics) and use the >>>>> empirical null i.s.o. a theoretical null for inference. Bacon supports >>>>> bias- and inflation-controlled fixed-effect meta-analysis that can be >>>>> executed in parallel. A manuscript is available from biorxiv ( >>>>> http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/27/055772). >>>>> >>>>> Kind regards, >>>>> >>>>> Maarten van Iterson >>>>> >>>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential >>> information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or >>> agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended >>> recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, >>> distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have >>> received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by >>> e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> James W. MacDonald, M.S. >> Biostatistician >> University of Washington >> Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences >> 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100 >> Seattle WA 98105-6099 >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel Wolfgang Wolfgang Huber Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist Genome Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany wolfgang.hu...@embl.de http://www.huber.embl.de _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel