chore: remove release + security categories for ESP partners

[MattIPv4]

Description

Coming out of today's web meeting discussion around #8995, we noticed that the partners JSON makes reference to security and release partner categories, which are not actually used in code, leading to some confusion. To make it easier to grok how the current logic + associations work as the discussion continues, this removes those unused categories for clarity.

Validation

No change in the partners rendered on the /about/partners page.

Related Issues

cc #8995 nodejs/web-team#162

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
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PR Summary

Low Risk
Static partner metadata only; no type or rendering logic changes, and the partners page behavior is unchanged.

Overview
Updates HeroDevs and NodeSource in constants.json so their categories are only ["esp"], removing security and release labels that were never part of the typed PartnerCategory union (infrastructure | esp).

This is a data cleanup for clarity during partner-category discussions; it does not change how partners are filtered or displayed on the site.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 75.37%. Comparing base (4fd34e2) to head (459773f).
✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

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Pull request overview

This PR removes the unused security and release partner categories from the partners constants JSON to align the data with the site’s actual PartnerCategory type and filtering logic, reducing confusion during partner-ranking discussions.

Changes:

• Remove security and release from the categories arrays for affected ESP partners.
• Ensure partner category data matches the currently supported categories used by the site ('infrastructure' | 'esp').

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[bmuenzenmeyer]

I didn't mention this in meeting @MattIPv4 but i suppose the inverse of removal is making the categories actually drive some logic.

[MattIPv4]

I didn't mention this in meeting @MattIPv4 but i suppose the inverse of removal is making the categories actually drive some logic.

Yeh indeed, though I figure that should happen as part of the wider discussion -- I think removing for now gives us a cleaner + clearer state to work from without any confusion.