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contributing.rst guide: Make the rules reflect the reality.

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@@ -349,8 +349,13 @@ General commit rules
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1. The commit message should contain either ``[bugfix]`` or ``[feature]``
or ``[refactoring]`` or ``[other]``. Refactorings and bugfixes and "other"
are backported to the latest stable release branch (currently 0.20.x).
or ``[refactoring]`` or ``[other]``. In practice however this is very
often forgotten and a commit message like ``fixes #xyz`` is good enough.
Every commit is backported unless
tagged with either ``[feature]`` or with ``[nobackport]``. They are
backported to the latest stable release branch (currently 0.20.x).
Refactorings are backported because they often enable further bugfixes.
2. If you introduce changes which affect backwards compatibility,