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@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ branch later by the gitmerge function.
Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, and in comments)
should always go to the release branch, if the documentation to be
-fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase.
+fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase. Doc
+fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch is in
+feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes.
-However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
+When you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can
apply the change to both master and branch yourself. It could also
happen that a change is cherry-picked from master to the release