Some steps were written here: 
https://devguide.python.org/gitbootcamp/#accepting-and-merging-a-pull-request

And the section right after explains the backport.

I guess it needs reorganizing.

Top posted from my phone while literally on a beach.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 7:57 AM Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 March 2018 at 12:42, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 March 2018 at 06:58, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Cheryl Sabella kindly migrated a patch I'd put on bpo some time ago
>> but forgotten about onto github. The PR (#6158) is ready to go (I
>> think) but this is the first time since the migration to github that
>> I've done a merge, and I'm not quite sure what the workflow is :-( I
>> didn't see much in the devguide (which covers how to write a PR, how
>> to test it etc, but not so much how to merge it, unless I missed
>> something, or it's so simple that the little I did find is all that's
>> needed!)
>
>
> You didn't miss it - https://devguide.python.org/committing/ is still pretty
> much written for the old approach of merging on the command line.
>
> So a devguide issue would definltely be appropriate, and if you're so
> inclined, even a PR with the docs that you wish had existing when you looked
> for them :)

I'll certainly try to find some time to put something together. For
now, I've raised https://github.com/python/devguide/issues/347 to
track it.

Paul
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