Speed up CI

[acroca]

• Faster ollama install
• Reduced waiting times in demo_actor
• Polling for sidecar readyness instead of flat wait.
• Polling for kafka topics instead of flat wait.

Before:

7m 32s

After (this PR):

5m 33s

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 82.20%. Comparing base (bffb749) to head (6e9f0a6).
⚠️ Report is 180 commits behind head on main.

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Pull request overview

This PR reduces end-to-end CI time by removing fixed sleeps in example/integration test infrastructure and replacing them with readiness/condition-based waits, plus speeding up Ollama setup in the GitHub Actions workflow.

Changes:

• Replace fixed wait=N sleeps in example tests with Dapr sidecar readiness polling (via DaprRunner.start).
• Make the Kafka-backed invoke-binding example wait on topic availability instead of a flat sleep.
• Speed up CI Ollama setup by downloading/extracting the release tarball and polling the HTTP API for readiness.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
tests/examples/test_w3c_tracing.py	Removes fixed startup wait in favor of runner readiness logic.
tests/examples/test_state_store_query.py	Removes fixed startup wait for the demo sidecar.
tests/examples/test_pubsub_streaming.py	Removes fixed startup waits for streaming pubsub tests.
tests/examples/test_pubsub_streaming_async.py	Removes fixed startup waits for async streaming pubsub tests.
tests/examples/test_pubsub_simple.py	Removes fixed startup wait for simple pubsub test.
tests/examples/test_jobs.py	Switches to run(..., until=...) to stop when expected output appears.
tests/examples/test_invoke_simple.py	Removes fixed startup wait for invoke receiver.
tests/examples/test_invoke_http.py	Removes fixed startup wait for HTTP invoke receiver.
tests/examples/test_invoke_custom_data.py	Removes fixed startup wait for invoke receiver.
tests/examples/test_invoke_binding.py	Replaces flat Kafka sleep with polling for topic availability before starting daprd.
tests/examples/test_grpc_proxying.py	Removes fixed startup wait for gRPC proxying receiver.
tests/examples/test_demo_actor.py	Removes fixed startup wait for demo_actor service.
tests/examples/test_configuration.py	Removes fixed startup wait for configuration example.
tests/examples/test_dapr_runner.py	Adds coverage for readiness polling behavior and updates retry sleep expectations.
tests/examples/conftest.py	Implements sidecar readiness polling in DaprRunner.start and increases default wait budget.
examples/demo_actor/README.md	Updates expected output to reflect reduced demo wait time.
examples/demo_actor/demo_actor/demo_actor_client.py	Reduces demo sleep from 30s to 12s to speed the example/test.
.github/workflows/run-tests.yaml	Speeds up Ollama install and replaces fixed sleeps with readiness polling.

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[sicoyle]

amazing - thank you!!