Fix CI pipeline failures across all workflows

[Ilya Matiach (imatiach-msft)]

Description

This pull request focuses on improving CI reliability and compatibility across platforms and environments. The main changes include workarounds for dependency issues with zope packages, a fix for Node.js path handling on macOS CI jobs, and updates to end-to-end test scripts to improve UI interaction robustness. Additionally, it replaces the deprecated deptree tool with pipdeptree for dependency checks.

CI/CD Workflow Improvements:

• Added a step to force-reinstall zope.event and zope.interface with pip to resolve conda/pip compatibility issues in notebook and vision notebook CI workflows (.github/workflows/CI-e2e-notebooks.yml, .github/workflows/CI-e2e-notebooks-text-vision.yml). [1] [2]
• For macOS in the raiwidgets pytest workflow, added a step to fix the Node.js PATH in login shells, ensuring the correct Node.js version is used for subsequent steps. Also, simplified the yarn installation steps by removing custom PATH overrides (.github/workflows/CI-raiwidgets-pytest.yml).

End-to-End Test Robustness:

• Updated chart interaction steps in ensureChartsPivot and ensureNewCohortsShowUpInCharts to use .scrollIntoView() and { force: true } options, making UI tests more reliable by ensuring elements are visible and clickable (libs/e2e/src/lib/describer/modelAssessment/modelOverview/charts.ts, libs/e2e/src/lib/describer/modelAssessment/modelOverview/ensureNewCohortsShowUpInCharts.ts). [1] [2]

Dependency Management:

• Replaced the deprecated deptree tool with pipdeptree in both the development requirements and the dependency tree test, aligning with current best practices (responsibleai/requirements-dev.txt, responsibleai/tests/test_dependencies.py). [1] [2]

Checklist

• I have added screenshots above for all UI changes.
• I have added e2e tests for all UI changes.
• Documentation was updated if it was needed.

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Pull request overview

Fixes CI instability/failures by pinning Python tooling, adjusting macOS Node.js PATH behavior for login shells, and de-flaking Cypress model overview E2E interactions.

Changes:

• Pin setuptools<82 across release/CI workflows to avoid breakages from pkg_resources removal.
• Add zope.event and zope.interface to rai_core_flask runtime requirements.
• Stabilize E2E interactions by scrolling elements into view and using forced clicks; add a macOS Node PATH fix for CI-raiwidgets-pytest.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
rai_core_flask/requirements.txt	Adds zope.* dependencies for Flask core runtime.
libs/e2e/src/lib/describer/modelAssessment/modelOverview/ensureNewCohortsShowUpInCharts.ts	Makes the cohort view button interaction more robust in Cypress.
libs/e2e/src/lib/describer/modelAssessment/modelOverview/charts.ts	Makes chart pivot interactions more robust in Cypress.
.github/workflows/release-raiutils.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-rai-vision.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-rai-text.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-rai-test-utils.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-rai-tabular.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-nlp-feature-extractors.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-flask.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/release-erroranalysis.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during release tooling setup.
.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-raiwidgets-pytest.yml	Pins setuptools<82 and changes macOS Node PATH handling for login shells.
.github/workflows/CI-rai_core_flask-pytest.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-python.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-notebook.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-notebook-vision.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-notebook-text.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-e2e-notebooks.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CI-e2e-notebooks-text-vision.yml	Pins setuptools<82 for CI tool bootstrap.
.github/workflows/CD.yml	Pins setuptools<82 during CD tool bootstrap.

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