Merge pull request #6979 from planetf1/issue6803

#6803 add scorecards check

.github/workflows/scorecards.yml

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+ # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ # Copyright Contributors to the ODPi Egeria project.
+ ---
+ name: Scorecards supply-chain security
+ on:
+   # Only the default branch is supported.
+   branch_protection_rule:
+   schedule:
+     - cron: '26 9 * * 6'
+   push:
+     branches: [ "master" ]
+   # Also allow for manual invocation for testing
+   workflow_dispatch:
+
+ # Declare default permissions as read only.
+ permissions: read-all
+
+ jobs:
+   analysis:
+     name: Scorecards analysis
+     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+     permissions:
+       # Needed to upload the results to code-scanning dashboard.
+       security-events: write
+       # Used to receive a badge.
+       id-token: write
+       # Needs for private repositories.
+       contents: read
+       actions: read
+
+     steps:
+       - name: "Checkout code"
+         uses: actions/checkout@a12a3943b4bdde767164f792f33f40b04645d846 # tag=v3.0.0
+         with:
+           persist-credentials: false
+
+       - name: "Run analysis"
+         uses: ossf/scorecard-action@865b4092859256271290c77adbd10a43f4779972 # tag=v2.0.3
+         with:
+           results_file: results.sarif
+           results_format: sarif
+           # (Optional) Read-only PAT token. Uncomment the `repo_token` line below if:
+           # - you want to enable the Branch-Protection check on a *public* repository, or
+           # - you are installing Scorecards on a *private* repository
+           # To create the PAT, follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#authentication-with-pat.
+           # repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_READ_TOKEN }}
+
+           # Publish the results for public repositories to enable scorecard badges. For more details, see
+           # https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results.
+           # For private repositories, `publish_results` will automatically be set to `false`, regardless
+           # of the value entered here.
+           publish_results: true
+
+       # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
+       # format to the repository Actions tab.
+       - name: "Upload artifact"
+         uses: actions/upload-artifact@6673cd052c4cd6fcf4b4e6e60ea986c889389535 # tag=v3.0.0
+         with:
+           name: SARIF file
+           path: results.sarif
+           retention-days: 5
+
+       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
+       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
+         uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@5f532563584d71fdef14ee64d17bafb34f751ce5 # tag=v1.0.26
+         with:
+           sarif_file: results.sarif