PR Summary

This pull request includes several changes to GitHub Actions workflows and the build.psm1 script to improve logging, environment detection, and path filtering. The most important changes are summarized below:

GitHub Actions Workflows Improvements:

• .github/actions/infrastructure/path-filters/action.yml: Added a new composite action to filter paths and capture various types of changes in the repository, such as source code, GitHub workflows, tools, props, tests, and build modules.
• .github/actions/test/nix/action.yml: Enhanced logging by adding Write-LogGroupStart and Write-LogGroupEnd around several steps to improve readability and organization of logs. [1] [2] [3]
• .github/actions/test/process-pester-results/action.yml: Replaced the JUnit to CTRF conversion step with a summary logging step that captures and logs the test results summary, including total tests, errors, failures, and disabled tests.

Workflow Configuration Updates:

• .github/workflows/linux-ci.yml, .github/workflows/macos-ci.yml, .github/workflows/windows-ci.yml: Added github-mirror branch to the list of branches to trigger the workflows and updated permissions to include contents: read. Also, replaced the dorny/paths-filter action with the new path-filters composite action. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Build Script Enhancements:

• build.psm1: Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 in the environment detection function and improved logging with Write-LogGroup functions to group log messages and support GitHub Actions log grouping. [1] [2] [3] [4]

PR Context

1. Removed use of 3rd party actions in key workflows so the workflows can be used in internal mirrors
   • wrote simplified version of these workflows
2. Added branch names for our internal mirror.
3. Added helpers to write log groups to GitHub workflows

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