🌱 Reduce confusion around codecov check status.

[spencerschrock]

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

(Is it a bug fix, feature, docs update, something else?)

• PR title follows the guidelines defined in our pull request documentation

What is the current behavior?

• With our current coverage upload setup, it will always show a drop of 6-7% (see Code coverage hit after updating to go1.21 #3388). This is also confusing to contributors (🐛 Print Info in Empty Repo Scans #3426 (comment))
• The patch config is broken, so it essentially always passes: 50.00% of diff hit (within 90.00% threshold of 74.34%)
  • The goal here was probably a target of 90%, not a threshold

What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?**

The project status is converted to informational, so it will always pass.

Use Codecov in informational mode. Default is false. If true is specified the resulting status will pass no matter what the coverage is or what other settings are specified. Informational mode is great to use if you want to expose codecov information to other developers in your pull request without necessarily gating PRs on that information.

I still find the patch status helpful (especially the annotations while reviewing), so I'm leaving it as a check which can pass or fail. I've just fixed the threshold, it is now looking for patch coverage to be within 10% of the current code coverage level. Note: this is still a guideline and non-blocking since the check isn't marked as required.

• Tests for the changes have been added (for bug fixes/features)

Which issue(s) this PR fixes

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I've validated the file using their recommended approach.

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #3492 (bd4b4db) into main (893a472) will decrease coverage by 9.96%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main    #3492      +/-   ##
==========================================
- Coverage   74.33%   64.37%   -9.96%     
==========================================
  Files         187      187              
  Lines       13374    13374              
==========================================
- Hits         9941     8610    -1331     
- Misses       2874     4292    +1418     
+ Partials      559      472      -87     

[spencerschrock]

codecov/project Successful in 1s — 66.93% (-7.40%) compared to 5c93fe6

If this is still confusing, another alternative is to disable the codecov/project status entirely, but keep the codecov/patch one? The project code coverage could still be viewed on their site.