Mamba ci
Created by: APJansen
Because of the issues we have been having with the CI the last month or so, I had a look at using the mamba resolver within conda. In this branch I added this option to the matrix, so the original 4 tests are still there, along with 4 new copies that only differ in that they use the mamba resolver.
It reduces the conda setup step from ~15 minutes (or I've even seen 3 hours on a job from a few weeks ago.. ) to ~1 minute. And it seems to fix the issue, all of them pass whereas with conda the python 3.9 ubuntu test still fails.
So I would propose to make that the only option