Add Verda validation, remove cron for other validations, move to specific validation run

[drewmalin]

These tests are vital, but also are at the whims of git pushes and overlapping cron/PRs, and thus result in lots of orphaned data.

Going forward, we should be very explicit about running these actions, as they ultimately consume both capacity and funds.

[patelspratik]

does it make sense to only run these after merge like we do for the e2e on dev-plane? And enforce that new ones queue behind old ones instead of cancelling?

[drewmalin]

does it make sense to only run these after merge like we do for the e2e on dev-plane? And enforce that new ones queue behind old ones instead of cancelling?

Yeah that's a good idea and points us to needing to formalize exactly which git shas are appropriate for pulling into devplane. One method could be that it's just the honor system. Another is that these runs occur on a non-main branch, and the merge to main is only done as a mark of validation/release candidacy.