Adjust extension workflows in branch 'release 2.8' for nightly run tests for extensions

[aalves08]

Summary

Fixes #12159
Fixes #12032

Based on the work done in aalves08#4

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• Adjust extension workflows in branch release 2.8 for nightly run tests for extensions

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