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+#### JIRA
+
+#### Changes
+
+-
+
+#### Checklist
+- [ ] Feature Flag Required
+- [ ] Bug
+
+#### Test plan
+
+- [ ] Walk-through
+- [ ] Peer review
+- [ ] Inspection
+  - Detailed steps and prerequisites for validating the change:
+    - <!-- Replace this with the bullet points about the steps how to execute the test -->
+
+#### Risk Analysis - the risk of change is evaluated
+
+- [ ] Low - Majority of the changes are low risk which doesn’t require extra testing, only code review by 1 reviewer
+    - [ ] 1 reviewer
+- [ ] Medium - Some portion of changes are medium risk which need peer testing and review by 2 reviewers
+    - [ ] 2 reviewers
+    - [ ] peer testing
+- [ ] High - A very few breaking changes are high risk and need very throughout testing and review and also coordinated release process.
+    - [ ] 2 reviewers
+    - [ ] peer testing
+    - [ ] coordinated release