Remove references to GOPATH in documentation

It is no longer nessicary to build or develop Cilium from your GOPATH, and any directory can be used. Signed-off-by: James Laverack <james@isovalent.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/development/contributing_guide.rst b/Documentation/contributing/development/contributing_guide.rst
@@ -35,12 +35,10 @@ Clone and Provision Environment
 #. Fork the Cilium repository to your GitHub user or organization.
 #. Turn off GitHub actions for your fork as described in the `GitHub Docs <https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/enabling-features-for-your-repository/managing-github-actions-settings-for-a-repository#managing-github-actions-permissions-for-your-repository>`_.
    This is recommended to avoid unnecessary CI notification failures on the fork.
-#. Clone your ``${YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME_OR_ORG}/cilium`` fork into your ``GOPATH``, and setup the base repository as ``upstream`` remote:
+#. Clone your ``${YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME_OR_ORG}/cilium`` fork and setup the base repository as ``upstream`` remote:
 
    .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-      mkdir -p "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/cilium"
-      cd "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/cilium"
       git clone https://github.com/${YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME_OR_ORG}/cilium.git
       cd cilium
       git remote add upstream https://github.com/cilium/cilium.git

diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/development/dev_setup.rst b/Documentation/contributing/development/dev_setup.rst
@@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ If you want to connect to the Kubernetes cluster running inside the developer VM
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ export KUBECONFIG=$KUBECONFIG:$GOPATH/src/github.com/cilium/cilium/vagrant.kubeconfig
+    $ export KUBECONFIG=$KUBECONFIG:${PATH_TO_CILIUM_REPO}/vagrant.kubeconfig
 
-and add ``127.0.0.1 k8s1`` to your hosts file.
+where ``PATH_TO_CILIUM_REPO`` is the path of your local clone of the Cilium git repository. Also add ``127.0.0.1 k8s1`` to your hosts file.
 
 If you have any issue with the provided vagrant box
 ``cilium/ubuntu`` or need a different box format, you may

diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/docs/docstest.rst b/Documentation/contributing/docs/docstest.rst
@@ -39,13 +39,7 @@ For Windows
 Preview Documentation Locally
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-Navigate to the root of the folder where you cloned the project.
-
-.. code-block:: shell-session
-    
-    $ cd "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/cilium/cilium"
-
-Run the code below in your terminal:
+Navigate to the root of the folder where you cloned the project, then run the code below in your terminal:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session