Hi Benjamin and Chris,

I’ll have the review out today. 

Best regards,

Nitesh 

> On May 30, 2020, at 8:32 PM, Haibe-Kains, Benjamin 
> <benjamin.haibe-ka...@uhnresearch.ca> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Martin, your prompt reply is mostly appreciated. Any chance that 
> RadioGx and ToxicoGx will be reviewed before July? This would be really 
> beneficial for our Bioconductor workshop.
> 
> Thanks to all maintainers and reviewers for their great job, these are 
> difficult times and it is great to see the community doubling down on the 
> work to get Bioconductor better every day.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ---
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> Senior Scientist
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> On May 30, 2020, 17:04 -0400, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.b...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:mtmorgan.b...@gmail.com>>, wrote:
> Sorry that your packages have not been reviewed more promptly.
> 
> We try to have an initial review in two weeks, how long a full review takes 
> depends on many factors, including complexity of the review process. Your own 
> packages were I believe handled relatively efficiently initially. The release 
> at the end of April) is a major activity for us, and necessarily slows the 
> overall process down.
> 
> We are exploring processes to reduce the reviewer burden so that packages 
> like yours are added to Bioconductor more promptly; a major concern is to do 
> so in a manner that does not compromise the overall quality of accepted 
> packages.
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 5/30/20, 4:52 PM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Chris Eeles" 
> <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of christopher.ee...@outlook.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Bioconductor team and community,
> 
> My name is Christopher Eeles and I am a software developer in the Benjamin 
> Haibe-Kains laboratory at Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre in 
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
> 
> I am concerned due to inaction on the part of my reviewer for two of my 
> package submissions, and am not sure how to move forward.
> 
> Initially, I submitted three packages - CoreGx, ToxicoGx and RadioGx - on 
> April 4th, 2020 hoping to get included in the May Bioconductor release. It 
> became apparent that approval would not be possible in time, as such I 
> requested to expedite acceptance of CoreGx (on which the latter two packages 
> depend) so it could be included. My reviewer obliged and I am thankful for 
> that.
> 
> I was told to resubmit ToxicoGx and RadioGx on separate issues and that the 
> review process would continue from where it was for the resubmissions. This 
> occurred on April 25th, 2020. Before resubmission I had replied to a round of 
> reviewer comments and was waiting for a reply before making more changes.
> 
> However, since resubmission I have received no further reviewer comments and 
> no reply to my code updates since the last review. RadioGx will be a part of 
> a workshop our lab is putting together for Bioconductor conference in July, 
> but without acceptance of the package it will have to be installed from 
> GitHub.
> 
> Additionally, ToxicoGx is the package that was used to curate data for our 
> web application, ToxicoDB, which has been accepted to the NAR web server 
> edition. We had assumed that the package would be accepted by now and have 
> had criticism from our NAR reviewers about it's lack of availability. Both of 
> these packages were available on CRAN before our submission to Bioconductor.
> 
> My question is, how do I move forward? Without response from my reviewer I do 
> not know which conditions I need to meet for package acceptance? I am 
> available to respond to criticism.
> 
> Initial submission of these packages occurred almost 2 months ago, and it has 
> been over a month since the resubmissions. Is this normal? Are there 
> extenuating circumstances of which I am unaware?
> 
> Our lab put a lot of time and effort into these packages and wish to share 
> them with the Bioconductor community. Does anyone have advice on what I can 
> do to get the ball rolling again?
> 
> Thanks for your assistance.
> 
> Best,
> ---
> Christopher Eeles
> Software Developer
> BHK Laboratory<http://www.bhklab.ca/>
> Princess Margaret Cancer Centre<https://www.pmgenomics.ca/pmgenomics/>
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