ci: Update golang-ci linter and explicit go-setup to use v1.17 (sourc…

…enetwork#331)

* Bump to latest golangci version.

* Bump `checkout`, `go-setup`, `golangci` and `golangci-action`

* Setup go environment right before the linter is ran.

* Bump other `checkout`(s) and also omit the patch version in `y.x.0` and
set `check-latest: true`.

.github/workflows/code-test-coverage.yml

@@ -8,14 +8,15 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 2
 
       - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '1.17.5'
+          go-version: '1.17'
+          check-latest: true
 
       - name: Generate full test coverage report using go-acc
         run: make test:coverage-full

.github/workflows/lint-then-benchmark.yml

@@ -37,17 +37,24 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     steps:
-      - name: Check out code into the directory
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Checkout code into the directory
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      # Setting up Go explicitly is required for v3.0.0+ of golangci/golangci-lint-action.
+      - name: Setup Go environment explicitly
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.17'
+          check-latest: true
 
       - name: Run the golangci-lint
-        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
 
         with:
           # Required: the version of golangci-lint is required.
           # Note: The version should not pick the patch version as the latest patch
           #  version is what will always be used.
-          version: v1.44
+          version: latest
 
           # Optional: working directory, useful for monorepos or if we wanted to run this
           #  on a non-root directory.
@@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
   # =================== Step-2: Decide what type of benchmarks to run based on label(s).
   # This job acts like a switch to simplify our ci control flow later on.
   decide-benchmark-type:
-    name: Deciding which benchmarks to run based on flags
+    name: Decide which benchmarks to run based on flags
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
@@ -173,7 +180,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Run the full bechmarking suite
         if: needs.decide-benchmark-type.outputs.benchmark-type == 'FULL'

Makefile

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ dump: build
 
 .PHONY: deps\:lint
 deps\:lint:
-	curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b ${GOPATH}/bin v1.44.0
+	curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b ${GOPATH}/bin latest
 
 .PHONY: deps\:go-acc
 deps\:go-acc: