chore: make section_id input optional in changelog notify workflow

[Valentin-Shyaka]

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Greptile Summary

This PR makes the section_id workflow dispatch input optional so callers can trigger a changelog notification without linking it to a specific docs section.

• The YAML change is a one-liner: required: true → required: false on the section_id input.
• The companion script notify-backend.js is unchanged, so when section_id is omitted GitHub Actions will pass an empty string \"\" as SECTION_ID, which gets serialised as \"sectionID\": \"\" in the API payload rather than being absent — the backend may not handle that gracefully.

Confidence Score: 4/5

Safe to merge if the backend already handles an absent or empty sectionID field; needs verification before merging if that behaviour is unknown.

The workflow change itself is minimal and correct, but the script that consumes the input was not updated alongside it. When a user skips section_id, the API receives "sectionID": "" rather than the field being omitted, which could cause the notification job to fail or behave incorrectly on every optional-section run.

.github/scripts/notify-backend.js — needs a guard so an empty section_id is not forwarded to the API.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/changelog-notify.yml	Single-line change making section_id input optional; downstream script does not guard against the empty string this produces.

Sequence Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
sequenceDiagram
    actor User
    participant GHA as GitHub Actions
    participant Script as notify-backend.js
    participant API as changelog-api

    User->>GHA: workflow_dispatch (section_id omitted)
    GHA->>Script: "SECTION_ID="" (empty string)"
    Script->>API: "POST /api/changelog { sectionID: "" }"
    alt backend rejects empty string
        API-->>Script: 4xx error
        Script-->>GHA: exit(1) — workflow fails
    else backend accepts empty string
        API-->>Script: 2xx OK
    end

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sequenceDiagram
    actor User
    participant GHA as GitHub Actions
    participant Script as notify-backend.js
    participant API as changelog-api

    User->>GHA: workflow_dispatch (section_id omitted)
    GHA->>Script: "SECTION_ID="" (empty string)"
    Script->>API: "POST /api/changelog { sectionID: "" }"
    alt backend rejects empty string
        API-->>Script: 4xx error
        Script-->>GHA: exit(1) — workflow fails
    else backend accepts empty string
        API-->>Script: 2xx OK
    end

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