github: add static-checks workflow

The static-checks workflow is meant to trigger jobs on pull requests (or
manually) to run static checkers (e.g. golangci-lint, commit check, etc)
against the project.

Signed-off-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>

Author: wainersm

.github/workflows/go-checks.yaml

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+# Run static checkers on the Go sources of the project.
+---
+name: go-check
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '**.go'
+      - 'go.mod'
+      - 'go.sum'
+      - '.golangci.yml'
+      - '.github/workflows/static-checks.yaml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  golangci-lint:
+    name: golangci-lint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          submodules: true
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@4b73464bb391d4059bd26b0524d20df3927bd417 # v6.3.0
+        with:
+          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
+          cache-dependency-path: 'go.sum'
+          cache: true
+      - name: Generate code
+        run: make generate
+      - name: golangci-lint
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@1e7e51e771db61008b38414a730f564565cf7c20 # v9.2.0
+        with:
+          version: v2.11.3
+