GitHub action to automate release notes helper script

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GitHub action to automate release notes helper script #3553

Open Anish9901 opened 2 months ago

Anish9901 commented 2 months ago

Description

Our release notes helper script: find_missing_prs.sh, is still flaky on some systems and is difficult to debug. We should create a GitHub action that automatically

Runs this script whenever a release branch is cut or a tag is created.
Creates a Release notes x.x.x PR with the output of the script.
Updates the PR if any commits are made to the release branch.

seancolsen commented 1 month ago

I think this is a good idea, @Anish9901.

I removed the "help wanted" label though because I don't think this would be very easy for a newcomer to work on. Specifically, I think it would be hard for someone to test and verify, and hard to understand the context of the problem without familiarity with our release process.