Hello Chris, thanks for taking up this issue! I agreed with Ludovic's comments, so things look good now for me. A very minor point: In the section on "trivial" changes, I would drop this sentence (which was already there before): "This is subject to being adjusted, allowing individuals to commit directly on non-controversial changes on parts they’re familiar with." The sentence is meaningless, as everything is all the time subject to being adjusted; and we do not have immediate plans to adjust it.
Looking forward to the merge since it clarifies things and removes the staging and core-updates branches not only from our minds, but also the texts. Andreas