Based on #3203, this PR takes things one step further and tries to generate the TypeScript typings for UserConfig from the JSON schema.

Risk assessment

For internal use only. Please select the risk level of this change:

• Low risk: Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.
• High risk: Changes are not fully under feature flags, have limited visibility and/or cannot be tested outside of production.

Which use cases does this change impact?

• Advanced setup - Impacts users who have custom workflows.
• Default setup - Impacts users who use default setup.
• Code Scanning - Impacts Code Scanning (i.e. analysis-kinds: code-scanning).
• Code Quality - Impacts Code Quality (i.e. analysis-kinds: code-quality).
• Third-party analyses - Impacts third-party analyses (i.e. upload-sarif).
• GHES - Impacts GitHub Enterprise Server.

How did/will you validate this change?

• Test repository - This change will be tested on a test repository before merging.
• Unit tests - I am depending on unit test coverage (i.e. tests in .test.ts files).
• End-to-end tests - I am depending on PR checks (i.e. tests in pr-checks).
• Other - Please provide details.
• None - I am not validating these changes.

If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

• Feature flags - All new or changed code paths can be fully disabled with corresponding feature flags.
• Rollback - Change can only be disabled by rolling back the release or releasing a new version with a fix.
• Other - Please provide details.

How will you know if something goes wrong after this change is released?

• Telemetry - I rely on existing telemetry or have made changes to the telemetry.
  • Dashboards - I will watch relevant dashboards for issues after the release. Consider whether this requires this change to be released at a particular time rather than as part of a regular release.
  • Alerts - New or existing monitors will trip if something goes wrong with this change.
• Other - Please provide details.

Merge / deployment checklist

• Con 8000 firm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
• Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
• Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.