Added the draft handover and skipped builds for documentation-only changes (#1094)

.github/workflows/build-and-release.yml

@@ -5,12 +5,34 @@ on:
       - main
     tags:
       - "v*.*.*"
+
+    # Changes which touch only these files start neither a build nor the quality gate: none of them is
+    # compiled or shipped, so there is nothing to check. GitHub never applies path filters to tags, so
+    # a release always builds. The list names each file and folder instead of matching all Markdown
+    # files: the changelogs below wwwroot are Markdown as well, and the app embeds them.
+    paths-ignore: &documentation_only
+      - "README.md"
+      - "CONTRIBUTING.md"
+      - "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"
+      - "SECURITY.md"
+      - "CITATION.cff"
+      - "**/AGENTS.md"
+      - "**/CLAUDE.md"
+      - ".junie/**"
+      - "documentation/**"
+      - "media/**"
+      - "tests/**/*.md"
+      - ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/**"
+      - ".github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/**"
+      - ".github/pull_request_template.md"
+      - ".github/FUNDING.yml"
   pull_request:
     types:
       - opened
       - labeled
       - synchronize
       - reopened
+    paths-ignore: *documentation_only
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && (github.event.action != 'labeled' || github.event.label.name == 'run-pipeline') && github.event.pull_request.number || github.run_id }}
@@ -746,7 +768,8 @@ jobs:
   # The quality gate. Deliberately without an `if` on build_enabled: a pull request only builds
   # when somebody sets the run-pipeline label, and a gate which is closed exactly while nobody is
   # looking is not a gate. It is cheap for the same reason it is unconditional -- one platform, no
-  # Tauri bundle, no signing, no artifacts.
+  # Tauri bundle, no signing, no artifacts. Only changes which touch nothing but documentation skip
+  # it, together with the whole workflow (see paths-ignore at the top): there is nothing to check.
   #
   verify:
     name: Verify