[vgokhale]

The release workflow currently starts every Monday but its 14-day gate skips alternate weeks.

This changes 3 things

1. Change to weekly cadence - this was the main intent
2. Change to 1a CT (avoids changing by an hour when dayight savings time ends)
3. lint had to be updated to 1.7.12 so it could accept the timezone: America/Chicago field.

[github-actions]

🏷️ CI Guide

Runs automatically on every PR:

• ✅ Pre-checks (submodule verification, code formatting)
• ✅ Aiter op tests (gfx942 + gfx950)
• ✅ Triton tests on MI35X (only when aiter/ops/triton/** or related paths are changed)

Extended tests (opt-in via labels):

Label	Tests
ci:gfx1250-ffm-triton	Run the five-shard gfx1250 FFM Triton test suite
ci:triton-300x	Run an additional Triton test job on MI300X in PRs (added automatically when gfx942 configs change); main branch always runs both MI35X and MI300X
ci:triton-355	Run the full Triton test suite on MI35X, not only the tests the change affects
multigpu	Aiter multi-GPU tests on the 8-GPU runner
ci:sglang	SGLang integration tests: DeepSeek-R1-MXFP4 accuracy, Qwen 3.5 accuracy
ci:atom	ATOM benchmark: DeepSeek-R1-0528, GPT-OSS-120B
ci:atom_full	ATOM accuracy suite for PR and main models from ATOM models_accuracy.json
ci:vllm	vLLM benchmark: GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek-R1-0528, Kimi-K2.5
ci:all	All standard extended tests (excludes ci:atom_full)

Only add ci:atom_full for FlyDSL or Triton upgrades.
Add labels via the sidebar or gh pr edit 6182 --add-label <label>

One backend per PR:
A PR changes one kernel backend: [Triton/Gluon] (Triton and Gluon count as one), [HIP], [ASM], [CK], [OPUS] or [FlyDSL]. If the title ends up with two backend tags, split the PR -- as stacked pull requests when one part cannot merge without the other.

PR title tags & labels:
Component tags ([Triton/Gluon], [HIP], [CK], [ASM], ...) are added to the PR title and as PR labels automatically from the changed files and re-synced on every push — change-type tags like [fix]/[Perf], op tags like [MLA], and human labels (ci:*) are left untouched. Add the no-auto-title label to stop the title rewrites; labels stay in sync either way.

[Copilot]

Copilot review overview

🟢 Approval recommended

The schedule, gate removal, labels, and required lint-version update are consistent and complete.

Review effort: Balanced
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

Updates release automation to run weekly at 1 a.m. Central Time.

Changes:

• Removes the biweekly release gate and manual bypass.
• Adds an America/Chicago weekly schedule.
• Upgrades actionlint for timezone validation.

File	Description
.github/​workflows/​release-automation.yaml	Enables weekly Central-Time releases and updates release headings.
.github/​workflows/​actionlint.yaml	Upgrades actionlint to version 1.7.12.

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[azaidy]

LGTM!