Fix linting

[WillAbides]

I noticed that .golangci.yml had some commented out and disabled linters. This PR fixes that. It also uncomments "example" from the GitHub action.

Running go mod tidy -compat 1.17 fixed the "no go files to analyze" error linting "examples".¹

For the linting issues, I updated .golangci-lint and fixed the issues that it found.

I think most of the changes are obvious, but I want to mention a few things:

• I created two test helpers "assertNilError" and "assertWrite" because that made the error checks issues easier to fix with find/replace. I see that assert functions are generally not used in this repo. I'm happy to inline these, but my preference is to keep them as-is.
• I changed the signature of stringifyValue to accept a *bytes.Buffer instead of an io.Writer because the linter knows that Buffer.Write always returns nil errors.
• I removed quite a bit of dead code from authorizations_test.go

Footnotes

1. examples/go.* changes were originally part of this PR, but merging Remove dependency on "golang.org/x/oauth2" #2895 removed them from the diff. ↩

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2903 (1f47817) into master (66b1147) will increase coverage by 0.03%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##           master    #2903      +/-   ##
==========================================
+ Coverage   98.14%   98.17%   +0.03%     
==========================================
  Files         143      143              
  Lines       12606    12609       +3     
==========================================
+ Hits        12372    12379       +7     
+ Misses        159      156       -3     
+ Partials       75       74       -1     

Files Changed	Coverage Δ
github/actions_secrets.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
github/github.go	98.11% <100.00%> (+<0.01%)	⬆️
github/repos_releases.go	91.13% <100.00%> (+1.68%)	⬆️
github/strings.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)

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[WillAbides]

Codecov didn't like that I modified an uncovered line, so I added a test for it.

[gmlewis]

I'm doing a crazy amount of driving today, so will be slow to respond. I try to "approve run" of the checks when I can, but today's going to be pretty challenging, sorry.

[WillAbides]

@gmlewis I appreciate how responsive you are on this repo. I have no expectation that you or anybody else be around on a weekend. I can see the lint results on my fork, so my feedback loop is just fine.

[gmlewis]

Wow, @WillAbides - thank you for this huge cleanup! It is greatly appreciated!
LGTM.

Awaiting second LGTM+Approval from any other contributor to this repo before merging.

[gabriel-samfira]

This is awesome

[gmlewis]

Thank you, @gabriel-samfira !
Merging.