Update commit policy for stable release branches #86026
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only very few people followed the strict policy in the last 5 years. the
maintainers accept backports without reason when it's obvious, so i
updated the policy to reflect that
strict policy was introduced in #11609 by @aszlig
i also added good examples i found as suggested by @viric in #11609
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