Document the 0 placeholder changelog workflow

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -432,6 +432,15 @@ There are two options for solving this:
Sorry, we know it's a bit fiddly, but it's *really* helpful for us when we come
to put together a release!
> [!TIP]
> If you are pushing from a branch in the main `element-hq/synapse` repository
>(rather than a fork), you can skip all of this: name the file
> `changelog.d/0.<type>` (for example `changelog.d/0.bugfix`) and commit it
> before opening the PR. Once the PR is open, CI automatically pushes a commit
> renaming the file to the real PR number, so just `git pull` afterwards to
> fetch the rename. This doesn't work from forks, since CI can't push back to
> them.
### Debian changelog
Changes which affect the debian packaging files (in `debian`) are an