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doc: be explicit about who can land on staging #387

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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -127,9 +127,10 @@ subsequent even-numbered major release is cut.

Every LTS major version has two branches in the GitHub repository: a release
branch and a staging branch. The release branch is used to cut new releases.
Only members of the release team should land commits into the release branch.
Only members of the @nodejs/releasers team should land commits onto release branches.
The staging branch is used to land cherry-picked or backported commits from
master that need to be included in a future release.
master that need to be included in a future release. Only members of
@nodejs/backporters should land commits onto staging branches.

For example, for Node.js v4, there is a `v4.x` branch and a `v4.x-staging`
branch. When commits land in master that must be cherry-picked for a future
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