ci: credit contributors in published release notes - #3109
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Summary
Adds contributor credit to the GitHub release notes that release-please produces.
release-please's changelog is commit-based and carries no author attribution. Switching its
changelog-typetogithubwould gain attribution but discard the emoji conventional-commit sections (#3095), so instead thepublish-releasestep now enriches the release body at publish time:.github/release.ymlcategories),github-actions,renovate,dependabot) and appends them as a### 🫶 Contributorssection,## New Contributorssection verbatim when present (first-time contributors),The
@mentionsalso make GitHub render the contributor avatar strip on the release page.CHANGELOG.mdis untouched, and a re-run of an already-published release will not duplicate the sections.Verification
Dry-ran the exact script against the real v7.1.1 release data: body preserved,
### 🫶 Contributorsappended with@afonsojramos @setchy(bot filtered out), New Contributors correctly omitted when empty.actionlintandzizmorclean.