Documentation Link

https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/coding_guide.html

Problem

The milestones section of the PR guidelines states

Bugfixes, tests for released code, and docstring changes are milestoned for the next patch release v3.N.M.

which I had assumed means all bugfixes should go to a patch release. However the backport section states

…(regressions against older releases, bugs/api inconsistencies the user can work around in their code) are on a case-by-case basis…

so not all bugfixes.

Suggested improvement

The milestones section has been updated recently, which makes me suspect that the backports section is out-of-date and should be updated to match.