Re: [Bioc-devel] adding new features to current release branch

2016-11-17 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen 
No, you should not add new functions to the release branch.  The
documentation is pretty clear.  The only thing you should change is bug
fixes (and perhaps documentation improvements which could be thought of as
bug fixes).

Kasper

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Anand MT  wrote:

> Hi Mods,
>
>
> My package maftools is now in release branch. Since the release, I haven't
> made any bug fixes or any sort of changes. Now I have few bug fixes and new
> functions that I want to add as they are helpful to users. Since, its
> mentioned only bug fixes to be ported to release, my question is, whether
> to add these new functions to devel or is it still acceptable/okay to port
> them to current release branch?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Anand.
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Re: [Bioc-devel] adding new features to current release branch

2016-11-17 Thread Martin Morgan 

On 11/17/2016 04:13 AM, Anand MT wrote:

Hi Mods,


My package maftools is now in release branch. Since the release, I
haven't made any bug fixes or any sort of changes. Now I have few bug
fixes and new functions that I want to add as they are helpful to
users. Since, its mentioned only bug fixes to be ported to release,
my question is, whether to add these new functions to devel or is it
still acceptable/okay to port them to current release branch?


add the bug fixes and new functions to devel. Make sure that these are 
ok in the nightly builds. Port the bug fixes to release. Be careful not 
to let new features or 'API' changes creep into release -- the release 
user gets the current functions and a constant interface so that they 
can carry on with use of your package in a stable environment.


Ideally, the commits to devel are separated so that it is easy to port 
the bug fixes, e.g., using the svn merge command.


Martin




Thanks,

-Anand.

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