Add MegaLinter for JSON and GitHub Workflow files

[bitonality]

MegaLinter

MegaLinter is an aggregate linter that combines a huge collection of different language/format linters and consolidates their configs. It's a hard fork of SuperLinter, but I prefer MegaLinter's approach to documentation and security more than SuperLinter. If you are unfamiliar with either of these aggregate linters, you can check out MegaLinter's website (https://megalinter.io/latest/).

This PR enables linting for GitHub actions and static JSON from MegaLinter.

JSON

Lints JSON files to make sure we aren't checking in malformed configurations/settings files. Reports are served as a pull request comment and inline on the file viewer for the PR. The JSON linter has auto-fixing disabled and is set to only emit errors. JSON linting only occurs on JSON files that change within the PR being evaluated. Example below:

GitHub Actions

Lints GitHub actions yml/yaml for correct syntax and reports errors that would typically silently fail or not behave as expected. This helps cut down on the amount of iterations needed to test GitHub actions and ensures that our workflows remain robust and stable. GitHub workflow linting will evaluate on ALL workflow files when one or more is changed. This is because workflows can cross reference each other and we want to ensure that we aren't breaking workflows not involved in the pull request. Example below:

Pull Request reporting

MegaLinter automatically adds a report to the PR comments with links to the relevant logs so devs can easily identify where the problems are. Linting is configured to run whenever a PR is created or updated.

Future Extensibility

MegaLinter already has out of the box support for the following use cases that are relevant to us:

• clang-format and cpplint for our C++ code.
• luacheck for our lua scripts
• pylint/ruff/bandit/black/flake8 for our python scripts
• clippy for rust
• markdownlint/remark-lint/markdown-link-check for markdown/docs validation
• cspell/vale for spell checking in docs or in code
• gitleaks for static secret scanning
• git_diff for checking for merge conflict markers

[github-actions]

🦙 MegaLinter status: ❌ ERROR

Descriptor	Linter	Files	Fixed	Errors	Elapsed time
❌ ACTION	actionlint	5		4	0.02s
✅ JSON	jsonlint	3		0	0.19s

See detailed report in MegaLinter reports

MegaLinter is graciously provided by

[bitonality]

What's our mechanism of integrating discord with github web hooks? I think it would be nice to disable discord notifications on specific messages (we currently get a notification whenever the linter runs for the first time on any PR)

[narknon]

I don't know if we can get that granual, it's just standard webhook settings