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Add release post labels to planning process

Nicole Williams requested to merge nicolewilliams-master-patch-90078 into master

Why is this change being made?

We tend to wait until the end of the milestone to generate release posts. This causes some inefficiencies around re-opening/closing issues that have already been closed to utilize automation, but it also causes a lot of work to have to be done at the last minute to avoid missing the Release Post. As a result, we've recently had several features make it into a release, but not get announced until the next milestone.

This MR proposes that release posts are automatically generated at the beginning of the milestone (when planning is finalized) so that we can review them throughout the milestone, and merge as soon as the feature makes it into the release.

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