Improve error messaging for misconfigured environment variables in releases

[dalnoki]

Problem Statement

While using Sentry CLI to create a release, a customer encountered the following error message:

error: This version of Sentry does not support artifact bundles. A release slug is required (provide with --release or by setting the SENTRY_RELEASE environment variable)

At first glance, the error suggested that the issue was related to artifact bundles or the SENTRY_RELEASE variable. However, the actual cause was that they had mistakenly swapped the values of the SENTRY_ORG and SENTRY_PROJECT environment variables. Once they corrected these variables, the release worked as expected.

Solution Brainstorm

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[linear]

CLI-176

[isokosan]

This was me. Since I'm using the cloud SaaS version, this threw me off - I thought the data center location (EU) could be the issue, and went around in circles quite a bit until I realized my mistake.

[szokeasaurusrex]

I agree, this is not an ideal user experience, and we can probably improve this. Will mark this as a bug, since the error message is factually incorrect.