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All reviewers can help ensure accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the plans in the issue, as well as the [Documentation Guidelines](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/documentation/) and [Style Guide](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/documentation/styleguide.html).
-Prior to merge, documentation changes committed by the developer must be reviewed by:
-**Prior to merging**, documentation changes committed by the developer must be reviewed by:
1.**The code reviewer** for the MR, to confirm accuracy, clarity, and completeness.
1. Optionally: Others involved in the work, such as other devs or the PM.
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@@ -130,10 +130,12 @@ and your degree of confidence in having users of an RC use your docs as written.
- You can request a review and if there is not sufficient time to complete it prior to the freeze,
the maintainer can merge the current doc changes (if complete) and create a follow-up doc review issue.
- The technical writer can also help decide what docs to merge before the freeze and whether to work on further changes in a follow up MR.
-**To request a pre-merge technical writer review**, assign the writer listed for the applicable [DevOps stage](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/categories/#devops-stages).
-**To request a post-merge technical writer review**, [create an issue for one using the Doc Review template](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new?issuable_template=Doc%20Review) and link it from the MR that makes the doc change.
1.**The maintainer** who is assigned to merge the MR, to verify clarity, completeness, and quality, to the best of their ability.
- Upon merging, if a technical writer review has not been performed, the maintainer should [create an issue using the Doc Review template](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new?issuable_template=Doc%20Review)
if one was not already created by the developer or reviewer.
- Upon merging, if a technical writer review has not been performed and there is not yet a linked issue for a follow-up review, the maintainer should [create an issue using the Doc Review template](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new?issuable_template=Doc%20Review), link it from the MR, and
mention the original MR author in the new issue. Alternatively, the mainitainer can ask the MR author to create and link this issue before the MR is merged.
- After merging, documentation changes are reviewed by:
