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docs/releasing.html: polish cherry-picking/testing text 

Reword slightly and highlight the important parts of the text.

CC: Andres Gomez <agomez@igalia.com>
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@ -111,18 +111,21 @@ the autoconf and scons build.
<p>Done continuously up-to the <a href="#prerelease">pre-release</a> announcement.</p>
<p>
As an exception, patches can be applied up-to the last ~1h before the actual
release. This is made <strong>only</strong> with explicit permission/request,
and the patch <strong>must</strong> be very well contained. Thus it cannot
affect more than one driver/subsystem.
</p>
<p>
Currently Ilia Mirkin and AMD devs have requested "permanent" exception.
Developers can request, <em>as an exception</em>, patches to be applied up-to
the last one hour before the actual release. This is made <strong>only</strong>
with explicit permission/request, and the patch <strong>must</strong> be very
well contained. Thus it cannot affect more than one driver/subsystem.
</p>
<p>Following developers have requested permanent exception</p>
<ul>
<li>make distcheck, scons and scons check must pass
<li><em>Ilia Mirkin</em>
<li><em>AMD team</em>
</ul>
<p>The following must pass:</p>
<ul>
<li>make distcheck, scons and scons check
<li>Testing with different version of system components - LLVM and others is also
performed where possible.
<li>As a general rule, testing with various combinations of configure
@ -130,9 +133,9 @@ switches, depending on the specific patchset.
</ul>
<p>
Achieved by combination of local ad-hoc scripts, mingw-w64 cross
compilation and AppVeyor plus Travis-CI, the latter as part of their
Github integration.
These are achieved by combination of <a href="basictesting">local testing</a>,
which includes mingw-w64 cross compilation and AppVeyor plus Travis-CI, the
latter two as part of their Github integration.
</p>
<p>
@ -425,7 +428,7 @@ Ensure the latest code is available - both in your local master and the
relevant branch.
</p>
<h3>Perform basic testing</h3>
<h3 id="basictesting">Perform basic testing</h3>
<p>
Most of the testing should already be done during the