Seems like a reasonable approach to me. The old release notes were a little 
hard to follow, but your suggestion should make them more straightforward from 
now on.

> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 22:21:52 -0500
> From: m...@nichework.com
> To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Updating the RELEASE-NOTES format for 1.22 and 1.23
> 
> I've already posted to mediawiki-l to try and get input from end users
> on these proposed changes [1], but I'd like to see if we can't change
> the RELEASE-NOTES format for the time that we're working on 1.23.
> 
> The main thing I've done is a bit of reordering and collection:
> 
> * New features
> * Breaking changes (collected in a single section)
> * Configuration changes
> * Bug fixes
> * API changes
> * Language updates
> * Misc changes
> 
> This is an effort to put the things users to know most about in a new
> release at the top of the file.
> 
> This could even be done using git comments as others have suggested.
> 
> Does this seem like a reasonable approach going forward?
> 
> Thanks for any comments,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/42443
> 
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