How speedy are patches to be downported to 11?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi,

what is the general policy of downporting changes from 17 to 11? I see
sometimes changes downported rather quickly which could have done with a
little more baking time. Especially since 17 is not even released yet.

Are there guidelines to follow? I did not find anything in the Wiki. Eg
minimum time to let a patch stew in the head release?

Related to that, how are possible compatibility issues to be handled? Eg. a
patch fixing the output of a command may be correct but may still throw off
parsers.

I suspect the answer will be "its up to you", and depends
on patch complexity and bug severity. But I still am curious how you handle
this in practice.

Thanks!

Thomas