Remove zipkin example

.gitignore

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ examples/otel-collector/otel-collector
 examples/opencensus/opencensus
 examples/passthrough/passthrough
 examples/prometheus/prometheus
-examples/zipkin/zipkin
 
 instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc/example/server/server
 instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc/example/client/client

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - Enforce that `client_certificate_file` and `client_key_file` are provided together in `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/otelconf`. (#8450)
 
+### Removed
+
+- Removed the deprecated zipkin exporter example in `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/examples/zipkin`. (#8501)
+
 <!-- Released section -->
 <!-- Don't change this section unless doing release -->
 

versions.yaml

@@ -84,5 +84,4 @@ excluded-modules:
   - go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/examples/otel-collector
   - go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/examples/passthrough
   - go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/examples/prometheus
-  - go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/examples/zipkin
   - go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/mongo/otelmongo