maintainers: mention hotfixes can be pr'd to master

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@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ appropriate.
If a commit is not something that goes into a release (eg changes to README or
CI), it may be committed straight to master.
If a hotfix is urgent, it may be PR'd straight to master. This should only be
done if you reasonably expect that it will be released soon and before anything
else is released.
If a series of commits that you want to release is on a release branch, but you
really don't want to release the whole branch, you must cherry-pick them onto
another release branch. Cherry-picking isn't ideal because those commits will