Follow-up from "Add new CI variable for releases"

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The following discussion from !195992 (merged) should be addressed:

• @ashmckenzie started a discussion:

  suggestion: We should also update https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/variables/predefined_variables/ to document the new variable as a follow-up, but ideally action soon.

cc @pedropombeiro