Improve SBOM automation

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Unknown
    • 3.8.0
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      Currently, whenever the driver's Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock file changes, an updated SBOM is generated and sent as a PR.  This is convenient because it means the SBOM always stays in sync and all a human has to do is approve and merge.

      However, the current implementation has some rough edges:

      • it generates a lot of PRs, which make it harder to read over the change history
      • it incurs a full evergreen run, which is wasted time and compute since updating the SBOM itself will have precisely zero effect on test results
      • it's leaking branches

      These all seem addressable with a little engineering effort:

      • AFAIK the SBOM is only needed for release artifacts; maybe it could be set up to only run on release branches?
      • The test runners can short-circuit if the only change is the SBOM; even better would be to predicate the evergreen run itself, but I don't know if that's possible.
      • Branches can be cleaned up by a follow-up workflow.

            Assignee:
            Abraham Egnor
            Reporter:
            Abraham Egnor
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