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Update flaky failure template to account for stable branches

Mayra Cabrera requested to merge update-flaky-failure-template-to-account-for-stable-branches into master

What does this MR do and why?

Delivery is working to extend the GitLab maintenance policy to support bug fixes to the two previous monthly releases in addition to the current stable release (details on gitlab-com/gl-infra&828 (closed)). Part of this work will open up the stable branches to allow developers to merge bug fixes directly into the stable branch.

Stable branches represent the source of GitLab releases, and because of this it is vital to guarantee their readiness and availability.

This commit expands the flaky-failure template to encourage the fix to be cherry-picked into the stable branches, which is already part of the broken-master resolution:

If the broken master incident affects any stable branches (e.g. !25274 (merged)), open new merge requests directly against the stable branches

Related to gitlab-com/gl-infra/delivery#2637 (closed)

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Edited by Mayra Cabrera

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