Move release CI tools tests to nightly

[lijinf2]

Description

closes #2174

Move ci/tools/tests/ out of the pre-merge test path and into nightly CI so release-time helpers (notably check_release_notes.py, used by release.yml) are exercised regularly without adding meta-tests to every PR.

Checklist

• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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[lijinf2]

/ok to test d51e0dd

[leofang]

If you apply this commit d29bc34 you can test the nightly CI in this PR to observe the effect, once it's green we can revert/merge.

[lijinf2]

/ok to test 24780b0

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/ok to test 24780b0

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[lijinf2]

/ok to test b712ef4

[lijinf2]

/ok to test b712ef4

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/ok to test b712ef4

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[lijinf2]

/ok to test df299a2

[lijinf2]

/ok to test 58fd95e

[leofang]

Q: have you verified that this works? I assume we need to call setup-python first?

[lijinf2]

Yes. I verified it on CI. It shows "Nightly: CI tools for release" job passed.

It looks ubuntu-latest comes with python pre-installed, and setup-python isn't strictly required here. We can add it to keep things consistent if there's a chance. Or let me know if you think we should do it now as a follow-up.

[lijinf2]

If you apply this commit d29bc34 you can test the nightly CI in this PR to observe the effect, once it's green we can revert/merge.

Thanks! Cherry-picking d29bc34 worked — nightly CI and test-ci-tools-for-release both passed as shown here.

It looks manual trigger via Github Actions → CI: Nightly optional-deps → Run workflow on the PR branch works too.

Separate issue: numba 0.66.0 (just released today July 1) started breaking nightly numba-cuda on Windows. This is unrelated to this PR (we only move ci/tools/tests to nightly). Also, Nightly had already passed with the cherry-pick trigger (before numba 0.66.0 release). Could we merge this PR without waiting on the numba-cuda pin/fix?

[leofang]

Thanks, Jinfeng!

Separate issue: numba 0.66.0 (just released today July 1) started breaking nightly numba-cuda on Windows. This is unrelated to this PR (we only move ci/tools/tests to nightly). Also, Nightly had already passed with the cherry-pick trigger (before numba 0.66.0 release). Could we merge this PR without waiting on the numba-cuda pin/fix?

It's OK. We'll fix it in NVIDIA/numba-cuda#905.

[leofang]

Admin-merging.

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