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There is one cheap way to ask python-semantic-release whether it will write your changelog. It answers would have written your changelog to CHANGELOG.md.
It answers that for a setup that writes nothing. Mine wrote nothing for thirty releases.
A few weeks ago I wrote Green CI ≠ working software. The argument there was that a green badge proves the job exited 0 and nothing more, so you should stop reading badges and start asserting effects.
This post is what happened next. I went and looked at the checks I was relying on to tell me an effect had happened. Four of them were pointed at the wrong thing. I had built two of them myself.
