Add Ability to Skip Releases

[korenyoni]

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Describe the Feature

The exclude-labels option should be included by default in auto-release.yaml

Expected Behavior

When a PR is merged with a skip-release label, a release should not be made.

Use Case

If a PR does not add any functionality to the actual module, e.g. a README typo fix, then there should be a way to skip the release. Repos using this template should have this ability.

Describe Ideal Solution

At first I believed that simply setting exclude-labels in .github/auto-release.yaml will enable this. However that only skips the release from being drafted. A release will still be made because of the publish action input.

The actual solution probably involves detecting the labels in the PR and programatically setting publish based on that, within the auto-release GitHub Actions workflow.

Alternatives Considered

N/A

Additional Context

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[nitrocode]

There is a no-release label you could use

[korenyoni]

@nitrocode this is in build-harness but this template repo's workflows need to be updated.

Will make a PR to update this.