Run only in master and update RELEASE.md

Signed-off-by: Friedrich Gonzalez <1517449+friedrichg@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: friedrichg

.github/workflows/distribution.yml

@@ -5,13 +5,6 @@ on:
     branches: [master]
     tags:
       - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+** # Tag filters not as strict due to different regex system on Github Actions
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'build-image/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/build-image.yml'
-  pull_request:
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'build-image/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/build-image.yml'
 
 jobs:
   build-dist:

RELEASE.md

@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ To publish a release candidate:
 1. Wait until CI pipeline succeeded (once a tag is created, the release process through GitHub actions will be triggered for this tag)
 1. Create a pre-release in GitHub
    - Write the release notes (including a copy-paste of the changelog)
-   - Build binaries with `make dist` and attach them to the release
-   - Build packages with `make packages`, test them with `make test-packages` and attach them to the release
+   - Download binaries from the `Dist Binaries` artifact in the [distribution](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/actions/workflows/distribution.yml) GitHub Actions workflow for the tag and attach them to the release
+   - Download packages from the `Packages` artifact in the [distribution](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/actions/workflows/distribution.yml) GitHub Actions workflow for the tag and attach them to the release
 1. [Sign the artifact and generate SBOM for the release](#sing-and-sbom)
 
 ### Publish a stable release
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ To publish a stable release:
 1. Wait until CI pipeline succeeded (once a tag is created, the release process through GitHub actions will be triggered for this tag)
 1. Create a release in GitHub
    - Write the release notes (including a copy-paste of the changelog)
-   - Build binaries with `make dist` and attach them to the release
-   - Build packages with `make packages`, test them with `make test-packages` and attach them to the release
+   - Download binaries from the `Dist Binaries` artifact in the [distribution](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/actions/workflows/distribution.yml) GitHub Actions workflow for the tag and attach them to the release
+   - Download packages from the `Packages` artifact in the [distribution](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/actions/workflows/distribution.yml) GitHub Actions workflow for the tag and attach them to the release
 1. [Sign the artifact and generate SBOM for the release](#sing-and-sbom)
 1. Merge the release branch `release-x.y` to `master`
    - Create `merge-release-X.Y-to-master` branch **from `release-X.Y` branch** locally