contributing: add note on hotfixes [ci skip]

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Jared Tobin 2019-09-28 14:43:31 +04:00
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@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ We perform updates by pushing releases over-the-air to `~zod` approximately
once per week, so any contribution that can be deployed OTA will usually find
its way onto the network pretty rapidly.
If you want to propose a hotfix (i.e. a small, OTA-updateable change, usually a
bugfix, to some currently-deployed release) then simply make it clear that your
contribution -- whether it be a pull request, patch, or whatever -- is intended
to be a hotfix. A maintainer can then deploy it to the network outside of the
normal release schedule.
Less frequently we release new Vere versions, which requires users to download
new binaries, and occasionally, while Urbit is still in early development, we
breach network continuity in order to release large changes that are difficult