[exporter/nop] Promote to beta (#9903)

This will be put into core/contrib in
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases#519.
Realistically we could declare this stable as well, it doesn't seem
feasible to introduce breaking changes.

**Link to tracking Issue:**
#7316

Author: evan-bradley

.chloggen/nopexporter-beta.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. otlpreceiver)
+component: nopexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Promote the nopexporter to beta
+
+# One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
+issues: [7316]
+
+# (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:
+
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: []

exporter/nopexporter/README.md

@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 <!-- status autogenerated section -->
 | Status        |           |
 | ------------- |-----------|
-| Stability     | [development]: traces, metrics, logs   |
-| Distributions | [] |
+| Stability     | [beta]: traces, metrics, logs   |
+| Distributions | [core], [contrib] |
 | Issues        | [![Open issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-search/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib?query=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Aexporter%2Fnop%20&label=open&color=orange&logo=opentelemetry)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aexporter%2Fnop) [![Closed issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-search/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib?query=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20label%3Aexporter%2Fnop%20&label=closed&color=blue&logo=opentelemetry)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3Aexporter%2Fnop) |
 
-[development]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#development
+[beta]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#beta
+[core]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol
+[contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib
 <!-- end autogenerated section -->
 
 Serves as a placeholder exporter in a pipeline. This can be useful if you want

exporter/nopexporter/internal/metadata/generated_status.go

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ type: nop
 status:
   class: exporter
   stability:
-    development: [traces, metrics, logs]
-  distributions: []
+    beta: [traces, metrics, logs]
+  distributions: [core, contrib]