[Doc] Add feature branch policy (#2432)

### What this PR does / why we need it?

This patch add the feature branch policy.

After this patch: maintainers are allowed to create a feature branch.
Feature branches are used for collaboration and must include an RFC
link, merge plan and mentor info.

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?

No

### How was this patch tested?

CI passed

- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
7be5d113d8

Signed-off-by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero@gmail.com>
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Yikun Jiang
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ body:
attributes:
label: Any Other Things.
description: >
Any other things you would like to mention.
Any other things you would like to mention, such as feature branch request.
validations:
required: false
- type: markdown

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@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Below is maintained branches:
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version, only bug fix is allowed and no new release tag any more. |
| v0.9.1-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.9.1 version |
| rfc/feature-name | Maintained | [Feature branches](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/versioning_policy.html#feature-branches) for collaboration |
Please refer to [Versioning policy](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/versioning_policy.html) for more details.

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@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ vllm-ascend有主干分支和开发分支。
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | 只允许文档修复 |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | 基于vLLM v0.7.3版本CI看护, 只允许Bug修复不会再发布新版本 |
| v0.9.1-dev | Maintained | 基于vLLM v0.9.1版本CI看护 |
|rfc/feature-name| Maintained | 为协作创建的[特性分支](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/versioning_policy.html#feature-branches) |
请参阅[版本策略](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/versioning_policy.html)了解更多详细信息。

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@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ Usually, each minor version of vLLM (such as 0.7) will correspond to a vLLM Asce
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Replaced by v0.7.3-dev |
### Feature branches
| Branch | Status | RFC link | Merge plan | Mentor |
|------------|--------------|---------------------------------------|------------|--------|
- Branch: The feature branch should be created with a prefix `rfc/` followed by the feature name, such as `rfc/feature-name`.
- Status: The status of the feature branch is `Maintained` until it is merged into the main branch or deleted.
- RFC link: The feature branch should be created with a corresponding RFC issue. The creation of a feature branch requires an RFC and approval from at least two maintainers.
- Merge plan: The final goal of a feature branch is to merge it into the main branch. If it exceeds 3 months, the mentor maintainer should evaluate whether to delete the branch.
- Mentor: The mentor should be a vLLM Ascend maintainer who is responsible for the feature branch.
### Backward compatibility
For main branch, vLLM Ascend should works with vLLM main branch and latest 1 or 2 release version. So to ensure the backward compatibility, we will do the following: