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Patrick Ohly c57be6f7f5 e2e framework: clarify Alpha/Beta requirement for feature gates
We want:

- To keep test annotations simple, using both WithFeatureGate
  and WithFeature should only be necessary when a test really
  has requirements that go beyond "feature gate needs to be enabled".

- To run tests which depend only on feature gates being enabled
  in the ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-alpha-features resp.
  ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-beta-features, because otherwise we
  may have a proliferation of many bespoke jobs which only run
  very few tests. This would make testing more expensive for
  Kubernetes.

- To enable those tests only once in the ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-alpha-features
  and ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-beta-features definition instead
  of having to update those each time feature gates change.

This can be achieved by adding `Feature:Alpha` resp. `Feature:Beta` as Ginkgo
labels instead of just `Alpha` and `Beta`. Then jobs which are configured to
skip tests with feature dependencies via --label-filter=!/Feature:.+/ will skip
tests which are labeled with just WithFeatureGate. The ci-kubernetes jobs
can select to include such tests with a special regexp that mimicks
a negative lookahead (see k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-testing/e2e-tests.md)

Note that removing WithFeature depends on first updating job definitions to use
--label-filter or to skip based on the inline `[Alpha]` or `[Beta]` text,
otherwise tests that were previously skipped because of WithFeature might
start to run in jobs which don't have the feature gate enabled.
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