Issue #709: Rename rules to metrics

[nikosbosse]

Description

This PR closes #709.
This PR closes #610

Following the discussion in #610 this PR replaces occurrences of "rules" with "metrics" in the code

(to be precise, I updated the code by searching and replacing

• rules_ with metrics_
• _rules with _metrics
• rules = with metrics =
• (rules with (metrics)

The PR also updates a few instances in the docs to make it clear that "rules" means "metrics and scoring rules"

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Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 95.28%. Comparing base (5db9070) to head (cab02d6).

Additional details and impacted files

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