Port several PRs from master to 2023.3 LTS (#23461)

### Ported PRs:
- https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/pull/22928
- https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/pull/22963
- https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/pull/23345
- https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/pull/23460

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Co-authored-by: Andrey Babushkin <andrey.babushkin@intel.com>

.github/workflows/job_onnx_models_tests.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ jobs:
       INSTALL_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/install
       INSTALL_TEST_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/install/tests
       ONNX_MODELS_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/onnx_test_models
-      MODELS_SHARE_PATH: "/mount/onnxtestdata"
+      # instead of using static MODELS_SHARE_PATH
+      # choose one of the replicas dynamically instead
+      # depending on GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER variable
+      NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS: 2
       ONNX_MODEL_ZOO_SHA: "d58213534f2a4d1c4b19ba62b3bb5f544353256e"
     steps:
       - name: Set apt retries
@@ -52,6 +55,8 @@ jobs:
           echo "OPENVINO_REPO=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/openvino" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "INSTALL_DIR=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/install" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "INSTALL_TEST_DIR=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/install/tests" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "MODELS_SHARE_PATH=/mount/onnxtestdata$((GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER % NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS))" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo $MODELS_SHARE_PATH
 
       - name: Extract OpenVINO packages
         run: |

.github/workflows/windows.yml

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ jobs:
       CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: sccache
       SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR: 1
       SCCACHE_SERVER_PORT: 35555
+      SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT: 0
       OPENVINO_REPO: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino"
       OPENVINO_CONTRIB_REPO: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino_contrib"
       INSTALL_DIR: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino_install"

.github/workflows/windows_conditional_compilation.yml

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: sccache
       SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR: 1
       SCCACHE_SERVER_PORT: 35555
+      SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT: 0
       OPENVINO_REPO: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino"
       INSTALL_DIR: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino_install"
       INSTALL_TEST_DIR: "${{ github.workspace }}\\tests_install"
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ jobs:
       CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: sccache
       SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR: 1
       SCCACHE_SERVER_PORT: 35555
+      SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT: 0
       OPENVINO_REPO: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino"
       BUILD_DIR: "${{ github.workspace }}\\openvino_build"
       MODELS_PATH: "${{ github.workspace }}\\testdata"

src/bindings/python/wheel/setup.py

@@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ class CustomBuild(build):
                 self.spawn(["cmake", "--install", binary_dir,
                                      "--prefix", prefix,
                                      "--config", CONFIG,
-                                     "--strip",
                                      "--component", cpack_comp_name])
 
     def run(self):

thirdparty/dependencies.cmake

@@ -356,7 +356,10 @@ if(ENABLE_OV_PADDLE_FRONTEND OR ENABLE_OV_ONNX_FRONTEND OR ENABLE_OV_TF_FRONTEND
         # see https://protobuf.dev/support/version-support/ and
         # https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/d61f75ff6db36b4f9c0765f131f8edc2f86310fa
         find_package(Protobuf 4.22.0 QUIET CONFIG)
-        if(NOT Protobuf_FOUND)
+        if(Protobuf_FOUND)
+            # protobuf was found via CONFIG mode, let's save it for later usage in OpenVINOConfig.cmake static build
+            set(protobuf_config CONFIG)
+        else()
             if(OV_VCPKG_BUILD)
                 set(protobuf_config CONFIG)
             endif()