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While reviewing a change in nova [1] I mentioned that we should have 
something in the release notes for Liberty on the change.  Typically for 
this I ask that the UpgradeImpact tag is added to the commit message 
because at the end of a release I search git/gerrit for any commits that 
have UpgradeImpact in them since the last major release (Kilo in this 
case) and then we should see if those need mentioning in the release 
notes upgrade impacts section for Nova (which they usually do).

The thing is, UpgradeImpact isn't always appropriate for the change, but 
DocImpact is used too broadly and as far as I can tell, it's not really 
for updating release notes [2].  It's for updating stuff found in 
docs.openstack.org.

So we kicked around the idea of a ReleaseNoteImpact tag so that we can 
search for those at the end of the release in addition to UpgradeImpact.

Are any other projects already doing something like this?  Or do we just 
stick with UpgradeImpact?  Per the docs [3] it mentions release notes 
but for configuration changes - which not everything in the release 
notes for an upgrade impact requires a config change, some are 
behavior/usage changes.  In this specific case in [1], it's actually 
probably an APIImpact, albeit indirectly.

Anyway, just putting this out there to see how other projects are 
handling tagging changes for inclusion in the release notes.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/189632/
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/DocImpact
[3] http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#peer-review

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann