Make Quick Checks be skipped if a PR updates only the CHANGELOG or version/VERSION files

[SarahFrench]

This PR's changes are intended to cause PRs that update CHANGELOGs and version/VERSION do not need to wait for these checks to complete.

Example PRs:

• Alpha release requires updating CHANGELOG & version/VERSION : prepare for 1.11.0-alpha20241211 release #36194
• Patch release requires updating CHANGELOG only : prepare for 1.10.2 release #36195

The version value is baked into the build binary, so the tests do help detect any issues stemming from bad values in version/VERSION. Because of this, this PR should be accompanied by some automation to ensure version/VERSION contains a string in the expected format.

• See: Add automated testing GHA specific to the version package #36216

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The docs for path-ignore say that the GHA would only be skipped if the PR changes only the files listed. If the PR edits additional files then the GHA will run during checks as expected:

When all the path names match patterns in paths-ignore, the workflow will not run. If any path names do not match patterns in paths-ignore, even if some path names match the patterns, the workflow will run.

Target Release

N/A

Draft CHANGELOG entry

N/A

[SarahFrench]

I think this stops the check running on the commit made when the PR is merged, so this PR will need to be updated with triggers specific to different subsets of branches (paths-ignore for pushes to contributors' branches, no ignoring for pushes to branches like main and vX.X.X)