doc: expand openssl instructions

Refs: #36541
Expand the instructions to cover what is needed when
updates are required across all active release lines
PR-URL: #36554
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>

Author: mhdawson

doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md

@@ -2,6 +2,21 @@
 
 This document describes how to update `deps/openssl/`.
 
+If you need to provide updates across all active release lines you will
+currently need to generate three PRs as follows:
+
+* a PR for master which is generated following the instructions
+ below which include the QUIC patch.
+* a PR for 14.x following the instruction below based on the
+ 14,x branch but skipping the step to apply the QUICK patch.
+ This PR should cherry pick back to the active release lines
+ except for the 10.x line.
+* a PR which uses the same commit from the second PR to apply the
+ updates to the openssl source code, with a new commit generated
+ by following steps 2 onwards on the 10.x line. This is
+ necessary because differences in 10.x requires that the
+ configuration files be regenerated specifically for 10.x.
+
 ## Requirements
 * Linux environment.
 *`perl` Only Perl version 5 is tested.