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Mention how to cherry-pick in the release branch guide (#53158)
* This keeps falling out of my brain. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Leggett <[email protected]> * indent Signed-off-by: Benjamin Leggett <[email protected]> --------- Signed-off-by: Benjamin Leggett <[email protected]>
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@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ for including it in the “.0” release. Otherwise, the PRs will not be merged
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* Behavioral changes should be highly scrutinized, while typo fixes don't require that level of scrutiny.
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* It is preferable that cherry-picks are done by the istio-testing bot.
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* Automated cherry-picks do not need subject-matter experts to approve if discussed in the original PR.
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* To trigger the bot cherry pick, either;
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* Apply the correct `cherrypick/release-X.XX` label to the PR, and the bot should pick it up.
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* Use an explicit PR comment command: `/cherry-pick release-X.XX`
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* It is strongly preferred to always apply the correct `cherrypick/` label manually to aid search and tracking, even if you use the comment command method.
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* All changes should have an associated GitHub issue and/or a release note.
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* In the event that a bug cannot be automatically backported, the istio-testing bot creates an issue for a failed
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attempt and assigns it to the developer. This issue **is not** sufficient for requesting approval.

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