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doc: Explicit statement of developer-level support

Andras Horvath requested to merge ahorvath-maintpolicy-20240321 into master

What does this MR do and why?

Clarify what Developer support means, within the Maintenance policy, so as to differentiate Support's engagements from that of the developer teams.

Debugging (self-hosted) customer issues on ancient versions is a significant burden and opportunity cost on engineering teams. Since we would not backport any fixes to old versions, there's no point in engaging there (but if the issue were still present in new versions, we will engage and fix).

Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/Product/-/issues/13235+s

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Edited by Andras Horvath

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