feat(delivery): add cutoff item date for so delivery items

[blaggacao]

#38053 still addresses a very common use case and a current flaw in the end-2-end buisness workflow.

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[ruthra-kumar]

@blaggacao
If there are no items within the cut-off date, then a delivery note with empty items table is created. User can unintentionally create lot of junk delivery notes.

so_to_delivery_note.webm

[blaggacao]

@ruthra-kumar Thanks a lot for the friendly QA! I worked around this issue in the case of a bulk transaction with the amendment in 9a70516.

I've tested in on a local database and it appears to behave as intended, now. 🤝

I thought it might be good for performance on large bulk transactions to not depend on the python GC, hence: del obj (cc @ankush for my education: is manually freeing memory a valid thought, at all?)

[blaggacao]

@ruthra-kumar I've been busy myself this week, but maybe we shouldn't let this dry out? I think it's ready.

[ruthra-kumar]

Will take a look at it this week.

[blaggacao]

@ruthra-kumar maybe we can get this merged this week, still? 🙏

[ruthra-kumar]

@blaggacao
Code looks ok. No junk Delivery notes now.

I think, making this a toggleable feature would be better. Add an option in Selling Settings and give the cut-off date popup only if enabled(?)

[blaggacao]

@ruthra-kumar added in: b8dac84

[ruthra-kumar]

semgrep failure is unrelated.Ignoring.

[ruthra-kumar]

When backporting include #40509