OAK-11269 add dedicated workflow for checking commit messages (#1865)

.commit-check.yml

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+# format as outlined in https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/blob/main/.commit-check.yml
+# further information in https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/blob/main/README.rst
+checks:
+  - check: message
+    regex: '^OAK-\d+\s\S+.*'
+    error: "The commit message must start with 'OAK-<ID> ' followed by some descriptive text"
+    suggest: Please check your commit message whether it matches above regex
+
+  - check: author_name
+    regex: ^[A-Za-z ,.\'-]+$|.*(\[bot])
+    error: The committer name seems invalid
+    suggest: run command `git config user.name "Your Name"`
+
+  - check: author_email
+    regex: ^.+@.+$
+    error: The committer email seems invalid
+    suggest: run command `git config user.email [email protected]`

.github/workflows/commit-check.yml

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+name: Commit Check
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: 'trunk'
+
+jobs:
+  commit-check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:  # use permissions because of use pr-comments
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}  # checkout PR HEAD commit
+          fetch-depth: 0  # required for merge-base check
+      # https://github.com/commit-check
+      # must be pinned due to https://infra.apache.org/github-actions-policy.html
+      - uses: commit-check/commit-check-action@8d507e12899a9feb405c3ed546252ff9508724e0
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # use GITHUB_TOKEN because of use pr-comments
+        with:
+          # check commit message formatting convention
+          message: true
+          branch: true
+          author-name: true
+          author-email: true
+          commit-signoff: false
+          merge-base: false
+          job-summary: true
+          pr-comments: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}