doc: clarify maintenance period for odd releases

i.e. that there isn't one. This was agreed in the LTS meeting: nodejs#213 PR-URL: nodejs#220 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
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@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ on the Periodic Table of Elements. For each upcoming LTS release, the LTS
 Working Group will select a handful of candidate names and submit those for a
 collaborator vote.
 
+An odd-numbered major release will cease to be actively updated when the
+subsequent even-numbered major release is cut.
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 ## LTS Staging Branches
 
 Every LTS major version has two branches in the GitHub repository: a release