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Document our policies for stable branches

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Job roles in the CI <jobs-description>
How to add a new job? <adding-new-job>
How to debug failures in CI jobs <debug-ci-failures>
Our policy for stable branches
------------------------------
Stable branches that are on `Extended Maintenance`_ and haven't received
backports in a while, can be tagged as ``Unmaintained``, after discussions
within the ironic community. If such a decision is taken, an email will
be sent to the OpenStack mailing list.
What does ``Unmaintained`` mean? The branch still exists, but the ironic
upstream community will not actively backport patches from maintained
branches. Fixes can still be merged, though, if pushed into review by
operators or other downstream developers. It also means that branchless
projects (e.g.: ironic-tempest-plugin), may not have configurations that are
compatible with those branches.
As of 09 March 2020, the list of ``Unmaintained`` branches includes:
* Ocata (Last commit - Jun 28, 2019)
* Pike (Last commit - Oct 2, 2019)
.. _Extended Maintenance: https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#maintenance-phases