ci: improve release-please PR workflow and exclude generated files from linting (#11)

Signed-off-by: Gregor Zeitlinger <gregor.zeitlinger@grafana.com>

Author: zeitlinger

.github/config/super-linter.env

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE=.*renovate-tracked-deps\.json
+FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE=(.*renovate-tracked-deps\.json|CHANGELOG\.md)
 IGNORE_GITIGNORED_FILES=true
 LOG_LEVEL=ERROR
 

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@16a9c90856f42705d54a6fda1823352bdc62cf38 # v4.4.0
+        id: release-please
         with:
           config-file: .github/config/release-please-config.json
           manifest-file: .github/config/.release-please-manifest.json
+
+      - name: Remind to reopen PR for CI
+        if: steps.release-please.outputs.prs_created == 'true'
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ fromJSON(steps.release-please.outputs.pr).number }}
+        run: |
+          gh pr comment "$PR_NUMBER" --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" --body "> [!IMPORTANT]
+          > CI checks don't trigger automatically on release-please PRs (created with \`GITHUB_TOKEN\`).
+          > Please **close and reopen** this PR to start CI."