Refactor CI and Release workflows, cleanup Azure pipelines, remove obsolete files, update docs.

.github/release-drafter.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name-template: 'v$RESOLVED_VERSION 🌈'
+name-template: 'v$RESOLVED_VERSION'
 tag-template: 'v$RESOLVED_VERSION'
 categories:
   - title: '🚀 Features'
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ categories:
     labels:
       - 'chore'
       - 'dependency'
+      - 'dependencies'
+exclude-labels:
+  - 'skip-changelog'
 change-template: '- $TITLE @$AUTHOR (#$NUMBER)'
 change-title-escapes: '\<*_&' # You can add # and @ to disable mentions, and add ` to disable code blocks.
 version-resolver:

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 name: CI
 on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches: ["master"]
   push:
-    branches: ["master"]
+    branches: ["*"]
     tags: ["v*"]
 
 permissions:
@@ -43,8 +41,8 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: write
     name: Publish to Sonatype
-    # Publish to Sonatype only on tags starting with 'v'
-    if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    # Publish to Sonatype only on tags starting with 'v' (stable releases) and not from forked repositories
+    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') && ! github.event.repository.fork }}
     needs: [ci]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -70,6 +68,8 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: write
     name: Publish to Azure
+    # Publish to Azure only for non-tag references (e.g., all the pushes to default and other branches) and not from forked repositories
+    if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') && ! github.event.repository.fork }}
     needs: [ci]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ jobs:
     # do not run on pull requests
     if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4