Adds a script to help generate the Thank You text for the release blo…

…gs. (opensearch-project#4884)

Adds a script to help generate the Thank You text for the release blogs. Use en dashes in the Thank You text to meet the standards of the project-website. When there is no name for a GitHub user, don't include a None.

Signed-off-by: David Venable <dlv@amazon.com>
Co-authored-by: Hai Yan <oeyh@amazon.com>

release/script/blog/README.md

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+# Generate Thank You text for the blog
+
+The Data Prepper release blogs include text thanking contributors to the project.
+This script makes this easier to accomplish.
+
+You need two tools installed:
+
+* [GitHub CLI](https://cli.github.com/)
+* Python 3
+
+
+Copy the following command and paste into your CLI.
+Modify the dates for `since` and `until` to include when work for this release start through when the the release work ended.
+
+
+```
+gh api --paginate '/repos/opensearch-project/data-prepper/commits?since=2024-05-16&until=2024-08-26' | jq -r '.[].author.login' | sort | uniq | ./format-release-thank-you.py
+```

release/script/blog/format-release-thank-you.py

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+#!python3
+
+#
+# Copyright OpenSearch Contributors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+
+authors = []
+for author in sys.stdin:
+    authors.append(author)
+
+
+for author in sorted(authors, key=str.lower):
+    user = json.loads(os.popen(f"gh api users/{author}").read())
+    if user['name'] != None:
+        print(f"* [{user['login']}]({user['html_url']}) -- {user['name']}")
+    else:
+        print(f"* [{user['login']}]({user['html_url']})")