consumererror: Add partial error type

[braydonk]

Description

This PR adds functionality for consumers to create a partial error type. This will allow consumers to properly report partial success/failure with failed item counts, which can subsequently be used when reporting sent/failed metrics.

Link to tracking issue

Part of #13423

Testing

Documentation

godoc comments are added to the new public functions in consumererror.

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✅ Project coverage is 91.66%. Comparing base (14a7832) to head (e3b4ff4).
⚠️ Report is 93 commits behind head on main.

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[mx-psi]

I don't have a lot of background on this module so no strong opinion on the API itself, but I do feel like the two items I commented below should be addressed before moving forward

[mx-psi]

I would rather have this in xconsumererror at the start, use it in contrib and once we are confident about it we move it to the 'stable' module

[mx-psi]

Could you add a testable example on how to use this?

[jmacd]

I would like to see a draft, at least, for the documentation that will accompany the package, what the consumers need to know. For example, in the fanout consumer, existing logic returns immediately when one of the fanned-out consumers returns a non-nil error. I believe we need a blanket recommendation that these errors may be treated the same as success in cases like these.

However even while continuing the fan-out, the returned error should join all the partial successes with good information that an OTLP receiver can convey to SDKs and user consoles. Here are some general rules that might make sense to apply:

• When applying the same request multiple times: concatenate partial-success message strings, take the maximum number of rejected items
• When combining requests as in a batch processor, prepend "batch rejected %d items: " to the partial-success message, set number rejected to 0

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