docs: update wording about the security release delay #8434
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For people not working in a culture where people start to go on holidays as early as 20-ish December, it's not exactly clear what "distrupt the holiday season" means and why it matters enough to delay the release. Clarify it instead of requring readers to read between the lines.
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Pull request overview
This PR improves the clarity of the documentation explaining why the December 2025 security release was delayed to January 7th, 2026. The updated wording makes the rationale more explicit and understandable for international audiences who may not be familiar with Western holiday practices.
- Replaced vague phrasing about "disrupting the holiday season" with a clear explanation about downstream projects and users being on holiday break
- Added explicit reasoning about vulnerability disclosure timing and the need for users to be available to evaluate and perform time-sensitive upgrades
- Made the documentation more culturally inclusive by not assuming readers understand implicit holiday-related context
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For people not working in a culture where people start to go on holidays as early as 20-ish December, it's not exactly clear what "distrupt the holiday season" means and why it matters enough to delay the release. Clarify it instead of requring readers to read between the lines.
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Background: I see some misunderstanding on the social media, which AFAICT is not what the original intent of the delay, and TBH personally I would not be able to read between the lines if I read this 8 years ago, before I started working with people that would already be on vacations around 20 December, which seems fairly common in Europe and Americas, since I did not know in this context "holidays" means "Christmas and a bunch of other festivals that we generally don't take time off for" in my country, where people usually are only off on 1 Jan and that's it. If I read it 8 years ago I would interpret it as "the Node.js team is on holidays so can't fix it", which is not how a project mostly built by volunteers actually functions.
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