fix: helm automation with correct version

[anithapriyanatarajan]

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Minor PR to fix helm release automtion failure

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[anithapriyanatarajan]

/kind misc

[jkhelil]

/approve

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[anithapriyanatarajan]

/cherry-pick release-v0.79.x

[tekton-robot]

❌ Cherry-pick to release-v0.79.x failed!

The automatic cherry-pick to release-v0.79.x failed.

Output:

🤖 Starting cherry-pick process...
Fetching PR #3405 information...
Found merge commit: c79fc555811025d5d2c8cafac1e993184689d832
PR title: fix: helm automation with correct version
Fetching target branch: release-v0.79.x...
From https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 * branch                release-v0.79.x -> FETCH_HEAD
Checking for existing cherry-pick PR...
Creating cherry-pick branch: cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x...
Switched to a new branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x'
branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x' set up to track 'origin/release-v0.79.x'.
Fetching commits from PR #3405...
Found 1 commit(s) to cherry-pick
Fetching PR ref to make fork commits available locally...
From https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 * branch                refs/pull/3405/head -> FETCH_HEAD
Cherry-picking commit 1/1: c234ed9c141bc26ccd4665a85d99a944b0a07b0b...
Auto-merging .github/workflows/helm-release.yaml
[cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x 46c89d7b9] fix: helm automation with correct version
 Author: Anitha Natarajan <anataraj@redhat.com>
 Date: Thu May 7 16:10:53 2026 +0530
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
Successfully cherry-picked all 1 commit(s)
Pushing cherry-pick branch...
To https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 ! [remote rejected]     cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x -> cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/helm-release.yaml` without `workflow` scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/tektoncd/operator'
❌ ERROR: Failed to push branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x' to remote. This might be due to missing 'workflow' scope on the token when modifying workflow files

Next steps:

• Check the action logs for complete details
• If the PR is not merged, merge it first and try again
• If there are conflicts, you'll need to manually cherry-pick this PR

[tekton-robot]

❌ Cherry-pick to release-v0.79.x failed!

The automatic cherry-pick to release-v0.79.x failed.

Output:

🤖 Starting cherry-pick process...
Fetching PR #3405 information...
Found merge commit: c79fc555811025d5d2c8cafac1e993184689d832
PR title: fix: helm automation with correct version
Fetching target branch: release-v0.79.x...
From https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 * branch                release-v0.79.x -> FETCH_HEAD
Checking for existing cherry-pick PR...
Creating cherry-pick branch: cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x...
Switched to a new branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x'
branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x' set up to track 'origin/release-v0.79.x'.
Fetching commits from PR #3405...
Found 1 commit(s) to cherry-pick
Fetching PR ref to make fork commits available locally...
From https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 * branch                refs/pull/3405/head -> FETCH_HEAD
Cherry-picking commit 1/1: c234ed9c141bc26ccd4665a85d99a944b0a07b0b...
Auto-merging .github/workflows/helm-release.yaml
[cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x 461ddff26] fix: helm automation with correct version
 Author: Anitha Natarajan <anataraj@redhat.com>
 Date: Thu May 7 16:10:53 2026 +0530
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
Successfully cherry-picked all 1 commit(s)
Pushing cherry-pick branch...
To https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
 ! [remote rejected]     cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x -> cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/helm-release.yaml` without `workflow` scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/tektoncd/operator'
❌ ERROR: Failed to push branch 'cherry-pick-3405-to-release-v0.79.x' to remote. This might be due to missing 'workflow' scope on the token when modifying workflow files

Next steps:

• Check the action logs for complete details
• If the PR is not merged, merge it first and try again
• If there are conflicts, you'll need to manually cherry-pick this PR

[anithapriyanatarajan]

/cherry-pick release-v0.79.x

[tekton-robot]

✅ Cherry-pick to release-v0.79.x successful!

A new pull request has been created to cherry-pick this change to release-v0.79.x.

PR: #3407

Please review and merge the cherry-pick PR.