Better runner placement control

[jhosteny]

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We'd like to better be able to distribute jobs between GH hosted and self hosted runners. We need some self-hosted jobs to definitively run on [self-hosted, ubuntu, ubuntu-22.04] runners, so having similar labels to available GH labels is very helpful. We have some jobs that need ubuntu / ubuntu-22.04, but can run anywhere, so we simply remove self-hosted. However, we have some jobs that must not run on self-hosted runners, and is no way to say the equivalent of [ubuntu, ubuntu-22.04, !self-hosted].

I am sure this has been asked before, but it would be very useful to have negative labels, either via runs_on or adding a not_runs_on that is evaluated in conjunction with the existing runs_on.

Alternatively, for our case, simply adding a hosted label to GH's hosted runners would be enormously helpful. Since I understand this might break existing workflows, I can image a user could have a dynamic tag name override hosted if they are already using that one elsewhere.

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