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Tweak dev backporting docs #466

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As of now, the plan for backporting to `active_release` is to do so semi-manually.

Step 1: Pick the commit to cherry-pick
_Note_: Since minor releases will be automatically picked up by other CI systems, it is CRITICAL to only cherry pick commits that are API compatible -- that is that do not require any code changes in crates that rely on arrow. API changes are released with the next major version.

Step 1: Pick the commit to cherry-pick.

Step 2: Create cherry-pick PR to active_release

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ARROW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=$ARROW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN CHECKOUT_ROOT=/tmp/arrow-rs CHERRY_PICK_SHA=b2de5446cc1e45a0559fb39039d0545df1ac0d26 python3 dev/release/cherry-pick-pr.py
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## Tags
## Labels

There are two tags that help keep track of backporting:
There are two labels that help keep track of backporting:

1. [`cherry-picked`](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/cherry-picked) for PRs that have been cherry-picked/backported to `active_release`
2. [`release-cherry-pick`](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/release-cherry-pick) for the PRs that are the cherry pick
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