Re: [Bioc-devel] Pushing updates in the release branch

2016-05-26 Thread Dario Strbenac
Hello, As a Bioconductor package user, I would prefer that the data didn't change at all in the release variety of ENCODExplorer. It makes a user's research results more stable and reproducible and there's an opportunity every six months to change it when the Bioconductor development variety be

Re: [Bioc-devel] Pushing updates in the release branch

2016-05-26 Thread Obenchain, Valerie
Hi Charles, Yes, the usual advice is that you touch release for bug fixes only but can update as often as you like in devel. This is the same pattern followed for our experimental data and annotation packages. Once we have a release those data are frozen and for 6 months are considered the 'curren

[Bioc-devel] Pushing updates in the release branch

2016-05-22 Thread Charles Joly
Hello, I'm the maintainer of the ENCODExplorer package. We provide the metadatas of the ENCODE project files in the `data/` section of the package. The problem is that there are regularly new datasets and changes in the previous dataset. I was wondering if it is OK to push new versions of the met