CONTRIBUTE and where to commit bug fixes

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hello,

As an occasional contributor I'm often unsure about to which branch a
bug fix or change should be committed to.  In CONTRIBUTE we have this
paragraph:

| If you are fixing a bug that exists in the current release, be sure to
| commit it to the release branch; it will be merged to the master
| branch later by the gitmerge function.

but that's obviously not always true: depending on the release cycle,
only fixes for bugs that where introduced in the last release are
accepted, or even less.  And if a fix is not ok for the release branch
in a moment, should it go to master, or should it just wait until
later?

So - could we enhance the quoted paragraph?  As it is I find it
misleading.

How can I find out which fixes are acceptable for the release branch at
any moment without asking every time?  I'm already following emacs-dev
but still sometimes find difficult to answer this question.  I couldn't
exactly say what the current policy is for example.


Thanks,

Michael.