[Bioc-devel] Okay to push a hotfix for an existing release?

[Nanda, Pariksheet]

Hello,

I was wondering whether someone from the Bioconductor core team might reply to this e-mail and/or to this GitHub issue [1] to confirm Bioconductor's hotfix policy. Specifically, the web server that JASPAR2024 relies on has changed and the old server SSL certificate expired on 2024-08-31 that breaks the package. It would be great if someone could confirm it's okay to apply the bug fix outside of the typical release cycle to the current release branch. I don't see this hotfix edge case in the general contributor guidelines [2] though of course I may have overlooked it mentioned elsewhere.

Thank you for any help,
Pariksheet

[1]  https://github.com/da-bar/JASPAR2024/issues/3
[2] https://contributions.bioconductor.org/versionnum.html