dedicated 2024 era for FastSim [14_2_X]

[kpedro88]

backport of #48153
(partial)

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @kpedro88 for CMSSW_14_2_X.

It involves the following packages:

• Configuration/Eras (operations)
• Configuration/PyReleaseValidation (pdmv, upgrade)
• Configuration/StandardSequences (operations)

@AdrianoDee, @Moanwar, @antoniovilela, @cmsbuild, @davidlange6, @DickyChant, @fabiocos, @mandrenguyen, @miquork, @rappoccio, @srimanob, @subirsarkar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@GiacomoSguazzoni, @Martin-Grunewald, @VinInn, @VourMa, @dgulhan, @fabiocos, @felicepantaleo, @makortel, @missirol, @mmusich, @mtosi, @rovere, @sameasy, @slomeo this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

• Backported from Update FastSim 2024 Era, add 2025 workflow #48153

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[kpedro88]

test parameters:
workflow = 16434.0

[kpedro88]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 44KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-0760a6/46414/summary.html
COMMIT: 9e81bc8
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_2_X_2025-05-25-0000/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/48195/46414/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 7 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 1 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 47
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3541452
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 465
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3540967
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 46 files compared)
• Checked 205 log files, 176 edm output root files, 47 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[kpedro88]

@cms-sw/upgrade-l2 @cms-sw/pdmv-l2 please sign

[Moanwar]

+Upgrade

[kpedro88]

@cms-sw/pdmv-l2 please sign

[AdrianoDee]

+pdmv

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_2_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_15_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[mandrenguyen]

+1