[receiver/promtail] remove promtail receiver completely (open-telemet…

…ry#18524)

.chloggen/remove-promtail-receiver.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: 'breaking'
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: promtailreceiver
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Promtail recevier is completely removed from the repository
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [18474, 18493]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: |
+ Promtail receiver in its current implementation has a dependency on Loki that leads to a huge amount of |
+ dependencies. It is getting difficult to maintain those dependencies. That's why the decision to |
+ remove promtail receiver was made

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ receiver/otlpjsonfilereceiver/ @open-telemetry/collect
 receiver/postgresqlreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @djaglowski
 receiver/prometheusexecreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @dmitryax
 receiver/prometheusreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @Aneurysm9 @dashpole
-receiver/promtailreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @mar4uk @kovrus @jpkrohling @gouthamve
 receiver/rabbitmqreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @djaglowski @cpheps
 receiver/pulsarreceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @dmitryax @tjiuming
 receiver/purefareceiver/ @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-approvers @jpkrohling @dgoscn @chrroberts-pure

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yaml

@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ body:
  - receiver/postgresql
  - receiver/prometheus
  - receiver/prometheusexec
- - receiver/promtail
  - receiver/pulsar
  - receiver/purefa
  - receiver/purefb

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yaml

@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ body:
  - receiver/postgresql
  - receiver/prometheus
  - receiver/prometheusexec
- - receiver/promtail
  - receiver/pulsar
  - receiver/purefa
  - receiver/purefb

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/other.yaml

@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ body:
  - receiver/postgresql
  - receiver/prometheus
  - receiver/prometheusexec
- - receiver/promtail
  - receiver/pulsar
  - receiver/purefa
  - receiver/purefb