feat: allow backporting from PRs to release branches #138
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Refs electron/electron#21773.
It's not uncommon that a PR would need to directly target a release branch, and then potentially be backported to other PRs from that initial PR. This PR thus allows PRs to be marked valid as long as the PR they are backporting targeted a valid release branch.
cc @MarshallOfSound @jkleinsc @ckerr