chore(ci): trim redundant work from CI critical path

[ggazzo]

Reduce CI resource usage and wall-clock time by cutting redundant work. No test coverage or build outputs change.

Changes

1. packages-build no longer waits on notify-draft-services
notify-draft-services only does real work on release events (registers a draft on the cloud). On every PR / develop push it was a checkout + skipped step, yet it sat in the critical path blocking packages-build. It produces no output that packages-build consumes. Dropped from needs, so package build starts right after release-versions.

2. test-federation-matrix restores the prebuilt packages artifact
It was running a full yarn build on a fresh runner instead of using restore-packages (untar the artifact packages-build already produced) like every other test job. Swapped to restore-packages.

3. Removed the now-unused turbo-build artifact upload
Only test-federation-matrix consumed it (via the turbo cache download it no longer needs). Removing the upload saves artifact storage + upload time on every run.

4. Aligned caching-for-turbo to v2.5.0 in meteor-build
It was pinned to v2.3.13 while every other job used v2.5.0 — different versions namespace their cache separately, so meteor-build was missing cache the other jobs populated.

Impact

• Shorter critical path on every PR/develop run (one fewer job to wait on before builds start).
• No full package rebuild in the federation job.
• Less artifact upload/storage per run.

Not included (bigger levers, discuss separately)

• Docker matrix still builds arm64 + amd64 for every microservice on PRs, though e2e only consumes amd64 — kept both arches to avoid changing published pr-* images.
• test-ui / test-ui-ee sharding (4 + 5 shards) dominates wall-clock.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 69.04%. Comparing base (582d25d) to head (67be608).

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