[$500] [HOLD for payment 2023-12-06] Local testing of GitHub Actions

[roryabraham]

Problem

There is no easy way to locally test our GitHub Actions.

Why this is important

When we make changes to GitHub Actions, it's difficult to generate confidence that a PR will work and do what it is intended. This creates headaches:

• It's harder to review GitHub Actions PRs and they need to be reviewed more carefully
• We need to live-test things which is often disruptive
• The best approximation is testing using another repo. We often use https://github.com/Andrew-Test-Org/Public-Test-Repo), but still the workflows you're testing there are not the same as the one's you're testing in E/App, and there may be different constraints in place, etc...
• There's a slower feedback loop with simple mistakes in Actions and Workflows, leading to development taking longer

Solution

Implement a local testing framework for GitHub Actions using https://github.com/nektos/act

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @muttmuure

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[radoslawkrzemien]

I'd like to have a look at this