Add CodeQL workflow for GitHub code scanning

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

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+name: "CodeQL"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main", "0.8", "0.20", "0.22", "0.23", "0.23.2-changelog", "0.24", "0.25", "0.26", "0.27", "0.28", "docs-update" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "22 19 * * 0"
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        language: [ javascript, python ]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+        with:
+          languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+          queries: +security-and-quality
+
+      - name: Autobuild
+        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+
+      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+        with:
+          category: "/language:${{ matrix.language }}"