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docs: stable-branches: backports may wait

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Let's note that maintainers can choose to delay backports to give them
more testing time.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@postmarketos.org>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8850>
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@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ release](../releases) branch.
* Put `backport of <link to the original MR>` into the description of the MR
towards the stable branch.
* For patches that are not related to security, maintainers can choose to delay
backporting to give them more time in edge. This can be done either by adding
a visible note in the original MR description that a backport shall wait and
how long, or by adding a blocking comment in the backport MR that it shall
not be merged before a specific date.
### Best Practices
* Cherry picked commits shall not be squashed, then it's hard to understand