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Clean up Experimental usage and come up with a graduation policy

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Description

Beam, APIs use experimental features quite a lot. Experimental features are growing, but at some point we should consider either removing or graduating them.

This is a proposal to:

- Track: All experimental features will be continually tracked in the change log explicitly.
- For features staying in experimental mode longer than 12 months,
\--\> Graduate: we should review whether the feature meets the usage bar to be long term maintained,
\-- \> Deprecate: or should be deprecated to reduce maintenance load.

It would be good to add a github ci action to check new usage of experimental tags are added to the change log.

/cc [~kenn] [~lcwik] [~robertwb]

Imported from Jira [BEAM-10237](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-10237). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: altay.

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