build(release): support triggering release workflows via comments#3889
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Allows maintainers to trigger release workflows (prepare, create-rc, process-backports) by commenting on the release tracking issue. This automates the release process further and reduces the need to manually trigger workflows from the GitHub Actions UI. - Created a central `on_issue_comment.yaml` workflow to parse comments. - Updated `release_prepare.yaml`, `release_create_rc.yaml`, and `release_process_backports.yaml` to be reusable workflows. - Updated the release tracking issue template to document the new comment commands.
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This pull request updates the release tracking issue template to document new comment-based automation commands and transitions to using reference-style Markdown links. The reviewer pointed out that defining Markdown reference links inside the HTML <details> block can prevent them from being resolved correctly elsewhere in the document, and provided a suggestion to move these definitions outside of the HTML block.
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Moving reference links outside of the <details> block ensures they are parsed correctly by GitHub's Markdown parser throughout the document.
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Allows maintainers to trigger release workflows (prepare, create-rc, process-backports) by commenting on the release tracking issue. This automates the release process further and reduces the need to manually trigger workflows from the GitHub Actions UI.
on_issue_comment.yamlworkflow to parse comments.release_prepare.yaml,release_create_rc.yaml, andrelease_process_backports.yamlto be reusable workflows.