ci: decouple CocoaPods publish from core release pipeline

[nickolas-dimitrakas]

Background

A CocoaPods trunk push failure during the release-core-sdk job currently blocks all downstream work — kit mirroring, kit GitHub releases, and kit pod publishing — even though those steps don't depend on CocoaPods being published first.

What Has Changed

• Removed the core podspec publish step from the release-core-sdk job so it only handles building artifacts and creating the GitHub release.
• Added a new publish-core-cocoapods job that runs after all GitHub releases and kit mirroring are complete.
• Updated publish-kit-cocoapods to depend on publish-core-cocoapods (kit pods require the core pods on trunk first).

The entire CocoaPods publish pipeline is now a self-contained tail section of the workflow. If it fails, all GitHub releases and kit mirrors will have already completed successfully.

Checklist

• Self-review completed
• Tested locally

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Reorders the release workflow by moving core CocoaPods trunk publishing into a new downstream job, which could impact release sequencing and failure behavior for production releases if the new dependencies/conditions are wrong.

Overview
Core release workflow no longer publishes the core podspecs during release-core-sdk; it now only builds artifacts and creates the GitHub release.

CocoaPods publishing is moved into a new tail job, publish-core-cocoapods, which runs after kit mirroring/releases complete, and kit pod publishing is updated to depend on this new core-publish job (instead of the core release job).

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📦 SDK Size Impact Report

Measures how much the SDK adds to an app's size (with-SDK minus without-SDK).

Metric	Target Branch	This PR	Change
App Bundle Impact	1.75 MB	1.75 MB	+N/A
Executable Impact	848 bytes	848 bytes	+N/A
XCFramework Size	6.38 MB	6.38 MB	+N/A

➡️ SDK size impact change is minimal.

Raw measurements

Target branch (main):

{"baseline_app_size_kb":84,"baseline_executable_size_bytes":75464,"with_sdk_app_size_kb":1876,"with_sdk_executable_size_bytes":76312,"sdk_impact_kb":1792,"sdk_executable_impact_bytes":848,"xcframework_size_kb":6528}

This PR:

{"baseline_app_size_kb":84,"baseline_executable_size_bytes":75464,"with_sdk_app_size_kb":1876,"with_sdk_executable_size_bytes":76312,"sdk_impact_kb":1792,"sdk_executable_impact_bytes":848,"xcframework_size_kb":6528}

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