Update auto-issue-comment workflow with author check

[Hemil36]

Add condition to skip comments for certain authors

Addressed Issues:

Fixes #1278

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Modified issue automation workflow to run automatic comments selectively—now restricted to issues from external contributors, excluding team members and project owners.

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• .github/workflows/auto-issue-comment.yml

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Walkthrough

The auto-issue-comment GitHub Actions workflow now includes a conditional guard that prevents the automated welcome comment from posting when the issue author is an organization owner, member, or collaborator. The condition filters execution based on the issue author's association metadata before the job runs.

Changes

Auto-comment workflow maintainer gating

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional gate for maintainer issues .github/workflows/auto-issue-comment.yml	The jobs.comment job gains an if: condition that gates execution based on github.event.issue.author_association, excluding OWNER, MEMBER, and COLLABORATOR associations, preventing redundant comments on internally created issues.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Suggested reviewers

• rahulharpal1603
• rohan-pandeyy

Poem

🐰 A simple gate keeps maintainers free,
No comment spam, just clarity.
When OWNER opens an issue bright,
The workflow skips—it knows what's right! 🌟

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main change: adding an author check to the auto-issue-comment workflow to skip automated comments for certain authors.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The pull request successfully implements the requirement from issue #1278 by adding a conditional to skip posting automated comments when the issue author is an OWNER, MEMBER, or COLLABORATOR.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are directly related to the linked issue #1278 and implement only the specified requirement without introducing unrelated modifications.

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[rohan-pandeyy]

Thank you for your contribution @Hemil36!