Update life cycle stage?

[Toby Hodges]

Is pre-alpha still the most appropriate description of the maturity of this lesson? Looking through the lesson site, the content looks quite mature, and I wonder if you have begun teaching it? If so, it would be better marked as alpha or even beta if you think it is ready for other Instructors to use.

[Kevin Rue-Albrecht]

Thanks for reviewing this lesson!

I guess most importantly 1) this lesson was never taught per se, at least not in this Carpentries format. However, it is largely based on a course that I deliver in Oxford. That other lessons goes a bit further (until the SummarizedExperiment), and I never took the time to transfer all its contents here.

2. I've wondered many times where this lesson was going. @csoneson usually makes the good point that rather than a standalone lesson, this was intended more like a series of episodes that other lessons (bioc-intro, bioc-rnaseq) could point to. That being said, my point 1 above does suggest that this one could stand as a lesson in its own right.

Perhaps this lesson could be trialled at EuroBioC2024, which will take place in Oxford (where I am based). I haven't made it to the last couple of EuroBioC events in person, which is one of the reasons why this lesson hasn't be trialled yet.