removal of vendor folder

[ZyanKLee]

Todo:

• removal of the folder itself
• make sure building via make dev and make release still works

[ZyanKLee]

possible candidate: PR #269 after rebase on/merge from master and renaming

[quick0831]

I think that #297 is simple enough, however I guess something like adding vendor/ into .gitignore needs to be considered.

[quick0831]

Just for reference, #257 is closed, but I can't see a discussion in the PR, I guess we need more consideration on the disadvantage of deleting vendor/ folder.

(Just to mention that I didn't learn Go before, I might try to learn it.)

[ZyanKLee]

we're having a discussion in #284

[quick0831]

we're having a discussion in #284

I see, thanks!

[TheDukeofErl]

I think that by inaction and not removing the vendor folder we've inadvertently made the decision to leave the vendor folder committed. Is this something that will remain the status quo or is there a reason for us to change this at this point?

[AXDOOMER]

I will be removing it after Hacktoberfest. I hate it because Dependabot doesn't update the dependencies in this folder.