Feature/update branching rules

Tweak documentation to reflect the change in branching policy.

requested review from @g-lbent

assigned to @chichi

added 4 commits

• 643f9a56 - Compute Uint from time-averaged energy
• 267b5cf0 - adds comment
• d3854bf9 - Merge branch 'bugfix/average-Uint' into 'develop'
• e0147d87 - Merge branch 'develop' into feature/update_branching_rules

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enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for e0147d87 succeeds

merged

mentioned in commit 612fb51d