Action is not available as an example workflow

[alfredodeza]

Hi!

Working on some demos today I found out that this action doesn't show up as a sample workflow in a GitHub project 😢

Having it as a sample workflow is great because:

• Creates visibility
• Makes it easy to "install" the action in a project

It was super surprising to see some other company (!) provide an action that uses scan-action itself for scanning

[alfredodeza]

Some extra context... the action does look like it is in the marketplace, it just doesn't show as a workflow. This is super odd :/ ~Not sure what extra steps are needed here to show up right in that menu where you can add workflows on the fly~

There is a public repository that hosts sample workflows and someone else added the scan-action one

[luhring]

Thanks @alfredodeza! @kzantow can you look into this when you get a chance?

[spiffcs]

https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/pull/1630 <-- this has been added as a PR for scan action to be added as a starter workflow

[kzantow]

Note: that starter workflow is for the sbom-action

[kzantow]

And actually the description shows that there is a starter workflow, however we should use this issue to track updating the name and organization

[adriens]

@alfredodeza , hopefully this short DEV.to post could help you.

[kzantow]

The workflow referenced here actually is a scan-action workflow, however, it was one of the first GitHub actions and as such has an incorrect author for reasons unknown. I've submitted an updated workflow here: https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/pull/1697

[kzantow]

This has been merged! https://github.com/anchore/scan-action/actions/new?category=none&query=anchore