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Release tool: provide an indication when CHANGELOG entry has no content

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domain: release automation
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Description

One of the steps of the release process is CHANGELOG entry generation. Sometimes the entry might have no content (for example when only docs/refactoring changes were merged since the previous release) and the entry looks like this:

```

# 13.0.2 (2021-11-17)
## Special Thanks
Andrew Kushnir, Armen Vardanyan, Dylan Hunn, Joey Perrott, Martin von Gagern, Paul Gschwendtner, Pete Bacon Darwin, Ramesh Thiruchelvam, dario-piotrowicz and fusho-takahashi

```

Release instructions used to suggest that Caretakers should add the following phrase in this case:

```
This release contains various API docs improvements.
```

The proposal is to warn a Caretaker that actions need to be taken to update the CHANGELOG.

P.S.: issue #263 also results in adding the same update to the PR generated against the master branch during the patch release.

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Research direction

Start by locating the release tool's CHANGELOG entry generation step and reproduce a release whose entry contains only the heading and special thanks. Confirm the warning tells the Caretaker to update the CHANGELOG, including the patch-release PR generated against the master branch; done means both cases provide that indication.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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