Align release guidelines with script behavior for major/minor aggregation

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Revive Stickers PR - Complete ✅

This PR successfully addresses all feedback from #90 with accurate implementation and improved terminology.

Problem Statement

PR #90 was not accepting review comments properly, so this new PR recreates the changes with all lessons learned and corrections applied.

Changes Implemented

• Version Management

  • Bumped version from 0.5.5 to 0.5.6 (PATCH)
  • Updated all version files consistently
  • Added comprehensive CHANGELOG entry

• Terminology Standardization

  • ✅ Changed "release notes" to "changelog items" throughout for consistency
  • ✅ Clarified "without a release" to "without a GitHub release" for precision
  • ✅ Consistent language across copilot-instructions.md and release_creation.yml

• Release Guidelines - Minor Releases

  • ✅ Changed from "patch version release notes" to "changelog items from ALL patch version bumps"
  • ✅ Added "including merges without a GitHub release" for clarity
  • ✅ More precise language that matches actual use case

• Release Guidelines - Major Releases

  • ✅ Changed from "minor release notes" to "changelog items from ALL minor version bumps"
  • ✅ Added "including merges without a GitHub release" for clarity
  • ✅ Added NOTE: "Minor release summaries already include their patches, so summarizing minors covers all changes"
  • ✅ Corrected to match actual script behavior (script extracts only minors, not individual patches)

• Script Documentation

  • ✅ Updated line 109 to clarify: "For major releases: includes all minor releases since last major (minor releases already include their patches)"
  • ✅ Ensures documentation accurately reflects script implementation

• Cross-File Consistency

  • ✅ Synchronized .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release_creation.yml with copilot-instructions.md
  • ✅ Both files now have identical guidelines

• Testing & Validation

  • ✅ All tests passing
  • ✅ Version consistency verified
  • ✅ Script behavior verified against documentation

Key Insight 💡

The generate-release-notes.sh script for major releases extracts only minor versions (X.Y.0), not individual patches. This is the correct approach because:

1. Each minor release already aggregates all its patch releases
2. By summarizing minors, you implicitly cover all patches
3. This avoids duplicate/redundant content in major release notes
4. The script uses v_patch == "0" filter when range_type="minor"

All Review Comments Addressed

From PR #90:

1. ✅ Missing version bump → Fixed: Version bumped to 0.5.6
2. ✅ Inconsistency at line 109 → Fixed: Script documentation now accurate
3. ✅ Script vs guidelines discrepancy → Fixed: Guidelines match script behavior
4. ✅ release_creation.yml consistency → Fixed: Synchronized with copilot-instructions.md

From code review:

1. ✅ Inconsistent terminology → Fixed: Changed "release notes" to "changelog items" in Step 1
2. ✅ Ambiguous phrasing → Fixed: Changed "without a release" to "without a GitHub release"
3. ✅ Grammar correction → Fixed: Added article "a" throughout

Files Changed (3 files in this update)

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release_creation.yml | 8 ++++----
.github/copilot-instructions.md             | 4 ++--
CHANGELOG.md                                | 3 ++-

Supersedes: #90
Fixes: #91
Ready for: Final review and merge

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Revive stickers PR</issue_title>
<issue_description>#90 is not accepting review comments and copilot follow up, create a new PR with lessons learned from #90 and close the old one</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Revive frozen PR #91

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the repository’s release-note guidance to match scripts/generate-release-notes.sh behavior—specifically clarifying that major releases aggregate minor versions (X.Y.0) because minor releases already aggregate their patch changes—then synchronizes the manual release issue template and bumps the template version.

Changes:

• Clarified minor/major release aggregation rules in .github/copilot-instructions.md (and synced them into the release issue template).
• Bumped version references from 0.5.5 → 0.5.6 across the repo.
• Added 0.5.6 changelog entries describing the guideline alignment.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
template.md	Updates template version string to 0.5.6.
package.json	Bumps package version to 0.5.6.
config/metadata.json	Bumps tracked template/package version to 0.5.6.
README.md	Updates displayed template version to 0.5.6.
CHANGELOG.md	Adds 0.5.6 entries describing the guideline alignment.
.github/copilot-instructions.md	Clarifies major/minor aggregation wording to match script behavior.
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release_creation.yml	Syncs release-note guideline wording with updated instructions.