I had to keep re-writing these few lines every time I wanted to check - status. 
I have tried to use the function like - release_notes_todo / release_notes_done which is in issue patch - doesn't seem like doing what I thought. 

Ideally, can we have this as a function in the issue patch?  something like <code> @issue.release_note_status </code> ? 

Please advice on how to clean this properly.