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

[Kern, Lori]

Yes if it is a bug fix and required for the package to function properly, It is okay to push to the RELEASE_3_20 branch.



Lori Shepherd - Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

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

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://secure-web.cisco.com/1r-1Bb_j0rBv39qrUiH6pPD-fDppwdQpQYr750SR7HK8lYIEkV9zmmllntm3dKRc-nLuiZUXkaLcKfbaD06_wUxdzgxW7k3gPrThxGYG2JktA-0JasgdK7oXJirGWL7fUFis0FxoM4KiH5MTxzGH48YES3sGlR3bDBeR-m1ywMXFCubt6c_QdZECUvAhKzvt_c2luqcIOpe_qS1CFKOvUKn4O-1kDXZuNDmRCzU_9gi7XghmIM2cfMeFw8zthmGRgN8JzkFA7YjsFbNfqCpqmP7LXW58WBo8Z3VP018E6RxNF1hoiwv6aksiGuEnE88Iv/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fda-bar%2FJASPAR2024%2Fissues%2F3
[2] https://secure-web.cisco.com/105co6aPz2-HGmzZOxgVDcq2qihyztP1WcbTPGmzT1AtL4Rdf5YREtGssnaRrk7gE2i_JhbVYnCgW5E5LR0SHTwOp4Tx6NumarctO60TvdeC7T3B1O2GKC_zdIuJYCqOXMFgAEDirFoDea9fUpGpzR6O1a-n1HrkQ9JvMZ-XX2_j0mQJxqCJvrCsiz3pZbeNlH3zDUsjtn97vtIeV5qzpXzqo_J5Yk6GaBwoJNWpeWqxdsaqNhwoRxPLs8gwccflARsSBeT1hLuEXKFGaXCxmCac0RJ7qBUKpEGEcvzyuQ-STQSNbH_ULRGEHeBN0yC0r/https%3A%2F%2Fcontributions.bioconductor.org%2Fversionnum.html

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