Add a base class for groups of actions.

Review Request #14643 — Created Oct. 19, 2025 and updated — Latest diff uploaded

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release-7.1.x

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When actions were implemented, the only group of actions we needed were
menus. As we begin to use action for more purposes, we need other groups
of actions, meaning it's a good time to come up with a more general base
class for this.

This change introduces BaseGroupAction, which MenuAction is built
upon. This manages a group of actions, allowing for explicit ordering
and -- just like menus (though it would be up to an implementation how
it wants to handle this).

There's a JavaScript side as well, which is equivalent to what
MenuAction was before. MenuAction is now a very thin subclass over
GroupAction.

For testing, our formerly registry-specific set of test action classes
have been moved into a common module, along with some new actions for
groups.

On top of this, actions now have a parent registry, assigned when
registering and unassigned when unregistering. This is primarily for
unit test purposes, but removes the assumption of actions_registry for
child actions.

Unit tests pass.

Tested all the actions in the UI to make sure they still work and
still show the menu items in the right order.

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