* Refactor golangci-lint conf

Order settings alphabetically.

* Add revive settings to golangci conf

* Check blank imports

* Check bool-literal-in-expr

* Check constant-logical-expr

* Check context-as-argument

* Check context-key-type

* Check deep-exit

* Check defer

* Check dot-imports

* Check duplicated-imports

* Check early-return

* Check empty-block

* Check empty-lines

* Check error-naming

* Check error-return

* Check error-strings

* Check errorf

* Stop ignoring context first arg in tests

* Check exported comments

* Check flag-parameter

* Check identical branches

* Check if-return

* Check increment-decrement

* Check indent-error-flow

* Check deny list of go imports

* Check import shadowing

* Check package comments

* Check range

* Check range val in closure

* Check range val address

* Check redefines builtin id

* Check string-format

* Check struct tag

* Check superfluous else

* Check time equal

* Check var naming

* Check var declaration

* Check unconditional recursion

* Check unexported return

* Check unhandled errors

* Check unnecessary stmt

* Check unnecessary break

* Check waitgroup by value

* Exclude deep-exit check in example*_test.go files

* Move the minimum version to go 1.17

* Update readme and changelog

Co-authored-by: Chester Cheung <cheung.zhy.csu@gmail.com>

Use unix.ByteSliceToString to convert Utsname []byte fields to strings.

This also allows to drop the charsToString helper which serves the same
purpose and matches ByteSliceToString's implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>

Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>

…try#2939)

This PR updates the example listed in the getting started doc
so that it will compile without error.  It also makes this
example consistent with the code found in
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/main/example/fib/main.go

Signed-off-by: Brad Topol <btopol@us.ibm.com>

…emetry#2960)

* Move to using Instrumentation Scope

* Use type alias, not definition

* Add a changelog entry

…pen-telemetry#2930)

* docs(website_docs): fix toc

* docs(website_docs): fix toc

* update exporting_data.md for rerun check-links

* update exporting_data.md for rerun check-links

Co-authored-by: Chester Cheung <cheung.zhy.csu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>

grammar edit for line 175 of readme

* fix typo

* spell fix

* Deprecate Library and move all uses to Scope

* Add PR number to changelog

* Don't change signatures in stable modules

* Revert some changes

* Rename internal struct names

* A bit more renaming

* Update sdk/trace/span.go

Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>

* Update based on feedback

* Revert change

Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Mirabella <a9@aneurysm9.com>

* feat: support TextMap

* doc: add comment

* test: support for ot.TextMap

* Retrieve lost code due to merge

* fix: retrieve lost code due to merge. test: support for ot.HTTPHeaders

* go mod tidy

* Optimized code style, add changelog

* doc: Restore comments

* wip: add test cases

* test: fix args error

* delete empty line

* Fix syntax and changelog errors

* Fix formatting errors

Co-authored-by: Chester Cheung <cheung.zhy.csu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Mirabella <a9@aneurysm9.com>

* Add a release template

* Update the about field

Co-authored-by: Damien Mathieu <42@dmathieu.com>

* Fix linting Issues

* Add ignore for template link

Co-authored-by: Damien Mathieu <42@dmathieu.com>
Co-authored-by: Chester Cheung <cheung.zhy.csu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Mirabella <a9@aneurysm9.com>

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