PharmaDevOps: Development Operations Guidance for Clinical Reporting Codebases

Project Scope 

• Landscape of what CICD is used today across the pharmaverse, and key pre-named reference packages outside the pharmaverse used in clinical reporting (e.g. ggplot2, survminer).

• Summarise integration deployment and release pain points within these R packages.

• Connect with the R Validation Hub and vendor tooling (e.g. Atorus openvalidate) to understand what key devops tooling could be applied to packages to accelerate validation.

• Deliverable 1: Summarise the state of DevOps in the pharmaverse today, with proposals on key tools used already, and where there are gaps.

• Deliverable 2: Develop the existing CICD library used in some pharmaverse R packages (referenced earlier in this proposal) to:

  • deliver a recommended suite of CICD tools for R and python packages that improve developer efficiency, and ensure code is well tested and consistent when merged to branch

  • provide off-the-shelf configurations to use tools such as docker images managed locally or via Github codespaces to simplify environment management.

Dinakar Kulkarni, Genentech

kulkard2@gene.com 

James Black, Roche

James.black.jb2@roche.com

Ben Straub, GSK

ben.x.straub@gsk.com

Alex Pearce, PHUSE Project Assistant

alexandra@phuse.global

CURRENT STATUS Q4 2024

• No update.

Preparation of deliverable for PHUSE US Connect 2024

Q3 2023

V1.0 of suite/library of CICD tools released

Q4 2023

Support adoption across pharmaverse and biostatistics packages where maintainers are willing to collaborate

Q1 2024 

Close V1.0 with hackathon in the lead-up to the PHUSE CSS 2024

Q2/Q3 2024

PharmaDevOps GitHub