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Description

Each of the 12 E2E shards downloaded WordPress core, WooCommerce, Storefront, Twenty Twenty-Five, WPC Composite Products and WP-CLI on its own, about 60 external downloads per run. A single DNS hiccup on one runner failed that shard with misleading errors. On the 3.7.8 release PR (#4088), for example, downloads.wordpress.org did not resolve on two runners:

• product-category failed in setup with Download failed. "A valid URL was not provided." WordPress's wp_http_validate_url() resolves the host with gethostbyname(), and when that fails WP_Http::request() reports this generic message.
• variable-product-depth passed all tests, then failed the PHP log check on a wp_update_plugins() warning that WordPress could not reach WordPress.org.

The other shards in the same run installed the same packages fine, so the failures were transient and per runner.

This PR adds a prepare-dependencies job that:

• resolves versions on api.wordpress.org and downloads every dependency in a single step: WordPress core and WooCommerce for both the supported and latest version sets, Storefront, Twenty Twenty-Five, WPC Composite Products, WP-CLI, and the marketplace Meta for WooCommerce build when use-marketplace-version is set
• tries each download 3 times, 5 seconds apart, and fails with an explicit error naming the URL
• checks every archive (tar -t / unzip -t) and the WP-CLI phar
• uploads everything as the wp-dependencies artifact

The shards now need this job, so they are skipped when it fails instead of each failing mid-setup. They install from the artifact (wp theme install <zip>, wp plugin install <zip>) instead of the network. Version resolution is unchanged: the supported WooCommerce major.minor resolves to its newest patch release, and a full version such as 11.1.1 falls back to that exact version.

Twenty Twenty-Five is installed only when missing, because recent WordPress releases bundle it and installing a zip over an existing theme fails. This matches the previous behaviour, where wp theme install twentytwentyfive left the bundled copy in place.

Not in this PR: the test site still makes its own update-check requests to api.wordpress.org at runtime (the source of the wp_update_plugins() warning). Stopping those, for example with an mu-plugin that short-circuits pre_http_request for api.wordpress.org, would be a follow-up.

Type of change

• Tweak (non-breaking change which fixes code modularity, linting or phpcs issues)

Checklist

• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas, if any.
• I have confirmed that my changes do not introduce any new PHPCS warnings or errors.
• I have checked plugin debug logs that my changes do not introduce any new PHP warnings or FATAL errors.
• I followed general Pull Request best practices. Meta employees to follow this wiki.
• I have added tests (if necessary) and all the new and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes.
• I have completed dogfooding and QA testing, or I have conducted thorough due diligence to ensure that it does not break existing functionality.
• I have updated or requested update to plugin documentations (if necessary). Meta employees to follow this wiki.

Changelog entry

Dev - Download E2E test dependencies once per run and share them with all shards.

Test Plan

• Parsed the workflow YAML and ran bash -n on the new download script.
• Ran the script's jq queries against the live WordPress.org API: WooCommerce latest 11.2.1 and supported 11.1.1 (exact-version fallback), Storefront 4.6.2, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.5, WPC Composite Products 8.0.3 all return download links. WordPress 7.1 and latest tarballs, the marketplace trunk zip and WP-CLI 2.10.0 return 200.
• The E2E workflow on this PR runs the new job and all shards.

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@vahidkay-meta has imported this pull request. If you are a Meta employee, you can view this in D130203198.

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@vahidkay-meta merged this pull request in bd1faa2.