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{"/COMMIT_MSG":[{"author":{"_account_id":11604,"name":"sean mooney","email":"smooney@redhat.com","username":"sean-k-mooney"},"change_message_id":"013f42e76aac5bb729ca886ca1a61efa974d7f90","unresolved":false,"context_lines":[{"line_number":13,"context_line":"the TAP device before the VM domain starts. 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I saw the Neutron patches are slowly merging","commit_id":"a818987dbb4d1f5e547e3d752740cc39dcbedc6e"}]}