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        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54965>54965</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            Change of policy on release notes appears to be undocumented
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    </tr>

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      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            documentation
      </td>
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          hvdijk
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    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    In <https://reviews.llvm.org/D122663>, @erichkeane writes:

> Our most recent direction is to document any non-NFC patches in the release notes if at all sensible [...]

This is a sensible policy and one that I have no issue with. However, it is not one that has been used in the past and I cannot find any documentation to support it. The only documentation on release notes that I can find is at <https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html>, which only states:

> Documentation: Any changes to the C API are required to be documented in the release notes so that it’s clear to external users who do not follow the project how the C API is changing and evolving.

An explicit statement that all changes to X are required to be documented in the release notes implies that changes not to X are not generally required to be documented in the release notes except in special cases. I would expect a change to policy to be accompanied by an update to that document, or alternatively to <https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html>.
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