Some people prefer to cherry-pick individual commits
so that they have less conflicts to resolve at once.
Add a comment about this possibility.
Signed-off-by: Jan Ciolek <jan.ciolek@scylladb.com>
The backport instructions said that after passing
the tests next `becomes` master, but it's more
exact to say that next `is merged into` master.
Signed-off-by: Jan Ciolek <jan.ciolek@scylladb.com>
Previously the section was called:
"How to backport a patch", which could be interpreted
as instructions for the maintainer.
The new title clearly states that these instructions
are for the contributor in case the maintainer couldn't
backport the patch by themselves.
Signed-off-by: Jan Ciolek <jan.ciolek@scylladb.com>
Add instructions on how to backport a feature
to on older version of Scylla.
It contains a detailed step-by-step instruction
so that people unfamiliar with intricacies
of Scylla's repository organization can
easily get the hang of it.
This is the guide I wish I had when I had
to do my first backport.
I put it in backport.md because that
looks like the file responsible
for this sort of information.
Signed-off-by: Jan Ciolek <jan.ciolek@scylladb.com>
