GRM-37: feat: Smart CI and release skipping for workflow-only changes

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -26,19 +26,41 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           . .venv/bin/activate
           python3 scripts/check_test_speed.py --max-seconds 10
-      - name: Release dry-run validation
-        run: |
-          . .venv/bin/activate
-          PYTHONPATH=src python3 scripts/release.py --dry-run || true
       - name: Documentation coverage check
         run: |
           . .venv/bin/activate
           PYTHONPATH=src python3 scripts/doc_coverage.py
 
+  release-dry-run:
+    needs: [quality, detect-changes]
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.user-facing-changed == 'true'
+    runs-on: docker
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up environment
+        run: make setup
+      - name: Install git-cliff
+        run: |
+          GIT_CLIFF_VERSION="2.13.0"
+          URL="https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff/releases/download/v${GIT_CLIFF_VERSION}/git-cliff-${GIT_CLIFF_VERSION}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
+          TMPDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+          curl -sL "$URL" | tar xz -C "$TMPDIR"
+          mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/bin"
+          mv "$TMPDIR/git-cliff-${GIT_CLIFF_VERSION}/git-cliff" "$HOME/.local/bin/git-cliff"
+          chmod +x "$HOME/.local/bin/git-cliff"
+          echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+      - name: Release dry-run validation
+        run: |
+          . .venv/bin/activate
+          PYTHONPATH=src python3 scripts/release.py --dry-run || true
+
   detect-changes:
     runs-on: docker
     outputs:
       ansible-changed: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.ansible-changed }}
+      user-facing-changed: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.user-facing-changed }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -62,6 +84,15 @@ jobs:
             echo "ansible-changed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
             echo "No Ansible files changed — skipping molecule tests."
           fi
+          # Check if any user-facing files changed (src/, ansible/, pyproject.toml)
+          USER_FACING=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" "$HEAD" -- src/gitea_runner_manager/ ansible/ pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+          if [ -n "$USER_FACING" ]; then
+            echo "user-facing-changed=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "User-facing files changed — release dry-run will run."
+          else
+            echo "user-facing-changed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "No user-facing files changed — skipping release dry-run."
+          fi
 
   molecule-tests:
     needs: [quality, detect-changes]