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Provide guidelines for backporting #503

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The devguide currently gives information about how to do a backport of a fix from the feature (master) branch to maintenance branches but I see very little in the way of guidance on how to decide if a backport is needed. The question has come up with core developers not really knowing what our policy, resulting in either a potentially beneficial fix not reaching users until one (even two) feature releases have passed or a fix being sent out prematurely in current maintenance releases introducing risk or, worse, an unnecessary incompatibility.

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