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On 11/01/16 20:08, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 01/10/2016 11:31 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
> <snip>
>> Wow. That'll make the release notes process painful this round ... o.O
>
> Hmmm. In my mind it will make it a lot easier. In the past we end up
> getting to the release and sit around and go "hmmm, what did we change
> in the last 6 months that people care about?" And forget 90% of it. This
> does the work up front. We can then just provide a final edit and
> summary of highlights, and we're done.
>
> Having spoke with ops over the years, no one is going to be upset if we
> tell them all the changes that might impact them.
>
>>
>>
>>> Would love it to be the case, but I don't think that's correct. Or if it's supposed to be correct, it hasn't been well communicated :)
>>
>>> Few random reviews from the DocImpact queue that didn't have relnotes:
>>
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/180202/
>
> I can only speak on the Nova change (as that's a team I review for).
> You'll see this comment in there -
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/180202/31//COMMIT_MSG - a relnote was
> expected for the patch series. Whether or not it managed to slip
> through, I don't know.

Confirmed - no relnotes for this.

>
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/249814/
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/250818/
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/230983/
>>
>>> Didn't really look closely into these - would encourage someone with a bit more time to do so, but the fact that these were so trivial to eke out means that "nearly all" is almost certainly a bad assumption.
>>
>>
>> My experience would indicate that many, many DocImpact bugs are really not worthy of relnotes.
>
> Can you provide some references? Again, my imagination doesn't really
> come up with a lot of Nova changes that would be valid DocImpact but
> wouldn't need a reno. I can see bugs filed against Docs explicitly
> because there is a mismatch.

Since you wanted to focus only on nova, here's some more DocImpact 
reviews that did not have relnotes. Again, I basically haven't read 
these -  if someone wanted to do this properly, much appreciated.


https://review.openstack.org/#/c/165750/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/184153/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/237643/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/180202/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242213/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/224500/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147516/




> 	-Sean
>