fix: submit translations against the branch the repo actually uses

[JarbasAl]

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Translations submitted for a skill repo that has no dev branch were silently lost.

The SPA hardcoded dev as the submission target. Skill repos do not agree on a branch name: OVOS repos use dev, many community repos use main or master. When the branch did not exist, actions/checkout could not fetch the ref and the job died. The issue still told the translator "A bot will create a PR automatically", no PR appeared, and nothing reported the failure.

This is not hypothetical. Three Kabyle translations submitted to OscillateLabsLLC/skill-homeassistant (default branch main) failed this way, while same-day submissions to OpenVoiceOS repos succeeded.

What changed

RepoScanner.clone_or_pull already fell back dev → main → master, but threw away which branch won. It now returns that branch, and the branch travels with the skill data into repos.json, the per-skill JSON, and the editor. Submissions and "edit on GitHub" links target a ref that exists.

Both workflows now verify the requested branch against the remote and fall back to the repository's default branch, so an old or hand-edited issue cannot reintroduce the failure. Both also comment on the originating issue when the job fails, so a broken submission is visible rather than silent. These are automation-authored comments designed into the workflow.

The "edit on GitHub" links were wrong for the same reason and are fixed by the same change.

Verification

Clean venv on Python 3.14.6:

• The seven new tests fail on the unfixed source and pass on the fixed source. Verified by reverting only ovos_localize/sync/github.py and scripts/generate_data.py while keeping the tests: 7 failed, then 7 passed once restored.
• Affected modules: 16 passed before, 23 passed after — no regression.
• Both workflow files parse as valid YAML.

The full suite also reports ten failures from ast.Str on Python 3.14, unrelated to this change and present on dev. Fixed separately in #390.

Not yet verified: the live end-to-end submission, which needs this deployed to Pages. Re-driving issues #387, #388 and #389 is the acceptance test.

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