Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#29645: doc: update release-process.md

1ea8674316 [doc] update release-process.md and backports section of CONTRIBUTING (glozow)

Pull request description:

  While doing various release process things for the first time, I noticed some of our docs are outdated and/or confusing.

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@@ -418,11 +418,8 @@ Backporting
Security and bug fixes can be backported from `master` to release
branches.
If the backport is non-trivial, it may be appropriate to open an
additional PR to backport the change, but only after the original PR
has been merged.
Otherwise, backports will be done in batches and
the maintainers will use the proper `Needs backport (...)` labels
Maintainers will do backports in batches and
use the proper `Needs backport (...)` labels
when needed (the original author does not need to worry about it).
A backport should contain the following metadata in the commit body: