Add New Release Branch Strategy to Contribution Docs

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Ch3LL 2017-08-24 12:51:00 -04:00
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@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ The Salt development team will back-port bug fixes made to ``develop`` to the
current release branch if the contributor cannot create the pull request
against that branch.
Release Branches
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For each release a branch will be created when we are ready to tag. The branch will be the same name as the tag minus the v. For example, the v2017.7.1 release was created from the 2017.7.1 branch. This branching strategy will allow for more stability when there is a need for a re-tag during the testing phase of our releases.
Once the branch is created, the fixes required for a given release, as determined by the SaltStack release team, will be added to this branch. All commits in this branch will be merged forward into the parent branch as well.
Keeping Salt Forks in Sync
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