Package: ReleaseLaunch 0.99.30

ReleaseLaunch: R utilities related to Bioconductor release tasks

The package faciliates a Bioconductor release. It currently updates existing Bioconductor repositories on GitHub after a release. The script creates the RELEASE_XX_YY branch and pushes it to the Bioconductor organization.

Authors:Marcel Ramos [aut, cre], Lori Shepherd [aut], Hervé Pagès [aut], Nitesh Turaga [ctb]

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ReleaseLaunch/json (API)

# Install 'ReleaseLaunch' in R:
install.packages('ReleaseLaunch', repos = c('https://link-ny.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/bioconductor/releaselaunch/issues

On CRAN:

Conda:

4.05 score 3 scripts 19 exports 24 dependencies

Last updated from:d1e3957e08. Checks:7 WARNING, 2 OK. Indexed: no.

TargetResultTimeFilesSyslog
linux-devel-x86_64WARNING151
source / vignettesOK188
linux-release-x86_64WARNING165
macos-release-arm64WARNING212
macos-oldrel-arm64WARNING241
windows-develWARNING96
windows-releaseWARNING157
windows-oldrelWARNING102
wasm-releaseOK129

Exports:add_bioc_remoteadd_gh_release_branchadd_gh_release_branchesbioc_release_yamlbioc_version_yamlclone_repoclone_reposextractNEWSget_bioc_software_manifestget_org_github_reposget_org_packagesget_user_github_reposgetPackagesNEWSpackages_with_release_branchpackages_without_release_branchprintNEWSset_bioc_remotesupdate_local_repoupdate_local_repos

Dependencies:askpassBiocBaseUtilsBiocManagerclicredentialscurlgertgitcredsgluehttr2inijsonlitelifecyclemagrittropensslR6rappdirsrlangrstudioapisysvctrswithryamlzip

How to branch the Annotation package repository

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How to flush the Software repository

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The Release Checklist

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How to version bump and branch

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Convenience functions to set, rename, or validate a repo's remotesadd_bioc_remote bioc_remotes set_bioc_remotes
Add the release branch to GitHub package repositoriesadd_gh_release_branch add_gh_release_branches bioc_release_yaml bioc_version_yaml branch-release-gh
Extract NEWS files from source package tarballsextractNEWS
Get the Bioconductor packages in the software manifestget-bioc-packages get_bioc_software_manifest get_org_packages
Get all repositories for a given GitHub organization or usernameget-github-repos get_org_github_repos get_user_github_repos
Compare the old and current releases to generate the release announcements NEWS compilationgetPackagesNEWS printNEWS
Generate the list of packages to be updatedpackages_without_release_branch packages_with_release_branch
Update local repositories after Bioconductor Releaseupdate_local_repo update_local_repos