From 50ea1847a296444f71fe7de87f69c02454bddb55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 12:23:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Update backport policy for known issues (#73489)

---
 docs/README.asciidoc | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/README.asciidoc b/docs/README.asciidoc
index c99125db5d5e5..049529e689194 100644
--- a/docs/README.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/README.asciidoc
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ See: https://github.com/elastic/docs
   Docs follow the same policy as code and fixes are not ordinarily merged to
   versions that are out of maintenance.
   
-* Do not backport doc changes to https://www.elastic.co/support/eol[EOL versions]. 
+* Do not backport doc changes to https://www.elastic.co/support/eol[EOL versions].
+
+* Release notes for known issues are an exception to this policy. Document the 
+  known issue in the release notes for any minor version affected by the issue.
+  Backport the changes to any branch containing release notes for those
+  versions, even if the branch is no longer maintained.
 
 === Snippet testing