find a way to early exit release workflow if commits won't trigger a release

[brian-smith-tcril]

https://github.com/openedx/paragon/blob/release-22.x/.github/workflows/release.yml has to go through all of

paragon/.github/workflows/release.yml

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	- name: Checkout
	uses: actions/checkout@v4
	with:
	fetch-depth: 0
	- name: Setup Node.js
	uses: actions/setup-node@v3
	with:
	node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
	- name: Install dependencies
	run: npm ci
	- name: Lint
	run: npm run lint
	- name: Test
	run: npm run test
	- name: Build
	run: npm run build
	- name: Build Docs
	run: npm run build-docs
	- name: Coverage
	uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
	with:
	token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}

just to see that a chore: commit was pushed and no new release should be made.

it'd be great (from a saving time and saving carbon stand point) to be able to skip all of that and just end the workflow if we aren't trying to release the changes