Add generic linters

Author: dmohns

.github/workflows/check-generic.yaml

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+# Generic checks to ease collaboration:
+# - consistent file encoding in UNIX style
+# - whitespaces in all purposes files like markdown, yaml, etc
+name: Check Generic
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  editorconfig-checker:
+    name: Run editorconfig-checker
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Run editorconfig-checker
+        run: docker run --rm --volume=$PWD:/check mstruebing/editorconfig-checker
+
+  markdownlint:
+    name: Run markdownlint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Run markdownlint-cli2
+        uses: DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action@v13
+
+  yamllint:
+    name: Run yamllint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Run yamllint
+        run: yamllint .