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Part of #82935.

What?

Removes obsolete React Native mobile E2E workflows, workflows that only ever execute from trunk, and the performance testing workflow from the wp/5.8 branch.

Workflow Purpose Reason removed
rnmobile-android-runner.yml React Native Android E2E tests Job hardcodes if: ${{ false }} — already fully dead. React Native support is also no longer maintained/shipped from Gutenberg.
rnmobile-ios-runner.yml React Native iOS E2E tests Pins xcode: 12.2 on macos-latest; current macOS runner images no longer include Xcode 12. React Native support is also no longer maintained/shipped from Gutenberg.
storybook-pages.yml Deploy Storybook to GitHub Pages Triggers only on push to trunk and explicitly checks out ref: trunk — never reaches its deploy target from this branch.
upload-release-to-plugin-repo.yml Publish releases to the WordPress.org plugin repo Triggers only on release: types: [published]; plugin releases are never published from wp/5.8, so this branch's copy never runs.
stale-issue-add-needs-testing.yml Mark stale issues needing confirmation schedule-only trigger — always runs from trunk's copy.
stale-issue-mark-stale.yml Mark issues stale after 30 days schedule-only trigger — always runs from trunk's copy.
stale-issue-needs-info.yml Mark issues needing info as stale schedule-only trigger — always runs from trunk's copy.
performance.yml Performance tests Performance testing is only maintained on the branch for the current WordPress release
pull-request-automation.yml Assigns fixed issues and labels first-time contributors on new pull requests pull_request_target runs always use trunk's copy of the file, and its push-triggered tasks return immediately outside trunk, so this branch's copy never does anything
build-plugin-zip.yml Builds the plugin zip, and holds the plugin release jobs (version bump, GitHub release draft) Nothing uses the zip it builds: WordPress 5.8 takes Gutenberg as npm packages. The release jobs only run when started from trunk, so they never run from wp/5.8

This branch does not have gradle-wrapper-validation.yml, any check-*-changelog.yml, cherry-pick-wp-release.yml, publish-npm-packages.yml, sync-assets-to-plugin-repo.yml, or sync-backport-changelog.yml — so there is nothing else in these categories to remove here.

Why?

wp/5.8 is a frozen, security-maintenance-only branch. Workflows that only ever execute using another branch's copy of the file (trunk-push or schedule triggers, or release events that never come from this branch), or are only maintained for the current WordPress release (performance testing), add maintenance surface — stale action pins to track, confusing signal in workflow-run history — without ever actually protecting this branch. React Native mobile support is not maintained or shipped from Gutenberg at all anymore, so its CI workflows have no ongoing value regardless of their current enabled/disabled state.

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