I have no strong opinion on what the policy should be, but I think there's no excuse for allowing the stated policy to get so far out of sync with the actual po

I have no strong opinion on what the policy should be, but I think there's no excuse for allowing the stated policy to get so far out of sync with the actual policy. That is, I think the stable-release maintainers should update Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst so that it tells the truth. (I think this is about normal stable kernels, not 'longterm' ones. I don't think 6.0 was expected to become the next LTS release.)