Update RTD build OS from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04

[sydduckworth]

Description

• Updated RTD build OS from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04
• Updated docs/conf.py to use importlib_metadata instead of pkg_resources

Tasks

• run pre-commit on your machine
• run pytest on your machine
• Does this PR add new features and / or change user-facing code / API? (if not, label with no-changelog-entry-needed)
  • write news fragment(s) in changes/: echo "changed something" > changes/<PR#>.<changetype>.rst (see below for change types)
  • update relevant docstrings and / or docs/ page
  • for any new features, add unit tests

news fragment change types...

• changes/<PR#>.feature.rst: new feature
• changes/<PR#>.bugfix.rst: bug fix
• changes/<PR#>.doc.rst: documentation change
• changes/<PR#>.removal.rst: deprecation or removal of public API
• changes/<PR#>.general.rst: infrastructure or miscellaneous change

uild OS from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 * Updated `docs/conf.py` to use `importlib_metadata` instead of `pkg_resources`

Tasks

• run pre-commit on your machine
• run pytest on your machine
• Does this PR add new features and / or change user-facing code / API? (if not, label with no-changelog-entry-needed)
  • write news fragment(s) in changes/: echo "changed something" > changes/<PR#>.<changetype>.rst (see below for change types)
  • update relevant docstrings and / or docs/ page
  • for any new features, add unit tests

news fragment change types...

• changes/<PR#>.feature.rst: new feature
• changes/<PR#>.bugfix.rst: bug fix
• changes/<PR#>.doc.rst: documentation change
• changes/<PR#>.removal.rst: deprecation or removal of public API
• changes/<PR#>.general.rst: infrastructure or miscellaneous change

[braingram]

Thanks!