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doc/go1.20: document bootstrap requirements (Go 1.20 needs Go 1.17.13)

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Change-Id: I806bc79e5b5c7b57750d4a4b39828add86a34635
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/452560
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Bryan Mills <bcmills@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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<h2 id="bootstrap">Bootstrap</h2>
<p><!-- https://go.dev/issue/44505 -->
TODO: <a href="https://go.dev/issue/44505">https://go.dev/issue/44505</a>: adopt Go 1.17.13 as bootstrap toolchain for Go 1.20
When building a Go release from source and GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP is not set,
previous versions of Go looked for a Go 1.4 or later bootstrap toolchain in the directory $HOME/go1.4 (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\go1.4 on Windows).
Go 1.18 and Go 1.19 looked first for $HOME/go1.17 or $HOME/sdk/go1.17 before falling back to $HOME/go1.4,
in ancitipation of requiring Go 1.17 for use when bootstrapping Go 1.20.
Go 1.20 does require a Go 1.17 release for bootstrapping, but we realized that we should
adopt the latest point release of the bootstrap toolchain, so it requires Go 1.17.13.
Go 1.20 looks for $HOME/go1.17.13 or $HOME/sdk/go1.17.13 before falling back to $HOME/go1.4
(to support systems that hard-coded the path $HOME/go1.4 but have installed
a newer Go toolchain there).
In the future, we plan to move the bootstrap toolchain forward approximately once a year,
and in particular we expect that Go 1.22 will require the final point release of Go 1.20 for bootstrap.
</p>
<h2 id="library">Core library</h2>