Tyler Helmuth

Getting to a place where we can use semvar is the ultimate solution, but does it requires Core to have an official 1.0.0 release? It would feel weird to say...

@tigrannajaryan ocb == [OpenTelemetry Collector Builder](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/cmd/builder). I like the idea of adding ocb to homebrew. If the outcome of the [discussion around whether or not Contrib should really be used...

@jpkrohling when you said "configuration file is required to run the collector" do you mean an actual configuration file, or do you mean configuration provided via [any valid source](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/service#how-to-provide-configuration)?

@josephwoodward I think we can check for the presence of a `--config` flag [here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/62d41a8ac401cdcb3b0fd7b067d2eecc64f0cc8b/service/command.go#L38), and if there are not any we can error accordingly. Let me know if you are...

/cc @kentquirk

> Is this a breaking change? Technically yes. But since this component is alpha we can still make config changes in breaking ways. Also, the config option, when used, breaks...

@mx-psi Actually the `mapstructure:"-"` means it is ignored right? If that's the case the setting isn't settable via config and is only used to access functions, which is unnecessary.

I think a factory function could be created in the telemetry query language that could take a Path that returns a timestamp and converts it to a string based on...

@fatsheep9146 can you break this into 2 PR, one for the function add and one to the transform processor? It'd be nice to do it all in one PR but...

@bogdandrutu @kentquirk curious on your thoughts on this function. It will certainly meet the needs of the user to rename keys in bulk, but we'd end up with `replace_match`, `replace_all_matches`,...