docs: describe strategy for Alpine new release

[MikeMcC399]

Description

Describe in the CONTRIBUTING > Version Updates document section that Alpine Linux new releases become the new default version for each active Node.js release line.

The previous statement that the latest two Alpine Linux releases are used is expanded for additional clarity.

Motivation and Context

Undocumented past practice has been to promote each latest Alpine Linux release to default.

Alpine Linux Release Branches states:

There are several release branches for Alpine Linux available at the same time. Each May and November we make a release branch from edge. The main repository is typically supported for 2 years and the community repository is supported until next stable release.

Testing Details

N/A

Types of changes

• Documentation
• Version change (Update, remove or add more Node.js versions)
• Variant change (Update, remove or add more variants, or versions of variants)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Other (none of the above)

Checklist

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[MikeMcC399]

Preview

• https://github.com/MikeMcC399/docker-node/blob/contributing-alpine-new-release/CONTRIBUTING.md#version-updates

[sxa]

Looks to match what we're currently doing. We may wish to revisit this in the future when Alpine becomes tier 2 based on which versions we choose to build on during the lifecycle of any given release.

[MikeMcC399]

Looks to match what we're currently doing.

👍🏻

We may wish to revisit this in the future when Alpine becomes tier 2 based on which versions we choose to build on during the lifecycle of any given release.

If Alpine succeeds on its approval process to migrate to Tier 2, we'll also need to review and update the README.