Release metric changes <v0.36.1>

[MadVikingGod]

Note

These changes only apply to the experiment modules. A different release will apply these to stable modules.

Removed

• Drop support for Go 1.17.
  The project currently only supports Go 1.18 and above. (Drop support for Go 1.17 #2785)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2797 (c8e004c) into main (2cd36e6) will increase coverage by 5.2%.
The diff coverage is 42.8%.

Additional details and impacted files

@@           Coverage Diff           @@
##            main   #2797     +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   69.4%   74.6%   +5.2%     
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  Files        145     150      +5     
  Lines       6707    6772     +65     
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+ Hits        4655    5055    +400     
+ Misses      1938    1587    -351     
- Partials     114     130     +16     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
...thub.com/Shopify/sarama/otelsarama/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...tion/github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...thub.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/otelaws/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...z/gomemcache/memcache/otelmemcache/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...om/emicklei/go-restful/otelrestful/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...n/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...tion/github.com/go-kit/kit/otelkit/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...n/github.com/gocql/gocql/otelgocql/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...ion/github.com/gorilla/mux/otelmux/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
... and 40 more