ci: add PR labels and config for github release notes (#955)

.github/release.yml

+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2024-2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes#configuring-automatically-generated-release-notes
+
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+  categories:
+    - title: 🚀 Features & Improvements
+      labels: [feat, perf, refactor]
+    - title: 🐛 Bug Fixes
+      labels: [fix, revert]
+    - title: 📚 Documentation
+      labels: [docs]
+    - title: 🛠️ Build, CI and Test
+      labels: [build, ci, test]
+    - title: Other Changes
+      labels: ["*"]
+      exclude:
+        labels: [chore, style]

.github/workflows/lint-pr-title.yaml

@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ on:
       - synchronize
       - reopened
 
-permissions:
-  pull-requests: read
-
 jobs:
-  main:
-    name: Validate PR title
+  conventional-commits:
+    name: Validate PR title and add label
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: amannn/action-semantic-pull-request@0723387faaf9b38adef4775cd42cfd5155ed6017 # v5.5.3
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses:  ytanikin/pr-conventional-commits@b628c5a234cc32513014b7bfdd1e47b532124d98
+        with:
+          task_types: '["feat", "fix", "docs", "test", "ci", "refactor", "perf", "chore", "revert", "style", "build"]'
+          add_label: 'true'
\ No newline at end of file