doc/src/backport_policy: add maintainer changes to backport criteria#2344
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Add maintainer changes to the backport criteria to remove ambiguity about whether they are included in the existing CI condition. Maintainer changes should be backported to keep maintainer notifications in sync between the unstable and stable branches.
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| fixes, bug fixes, CI changes, and maintainer changes are backported, while new | ||
| features, modules, and theme improvements are not backported. Upstream changes | ||
| causing theming issues are considered a bug. |
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Alternatively, what about appending to the constraint clarifications:
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| fixes, bug fixes, CI changes, and maintainer changes are backported, while new | |
| features, modules, and theme improvements are not backported. Upstream changes | |
| causing theming issues are considered a bug. | |
| fixes, bug fixes, and CI changes are backported, while new features, modules, | |
| and theme improvements are not backported. Upstream changes causing theming | |
| issues are considered a bug and maintainer changes are considered as CI changes. |
IMHO, this is cleaner, if we want this clarification.
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Should we really explicitly mention this or is the CI implication enough?