Anuraag (Rag) Agrawal

> this would mean that is conceptually impossible collecting exemplars and require ordering at the same time Indeed, I believe it is _impossible_ to require ordering between exemplars within a...

Unfortunately opencensus automatically initializes on first call and has no way of controlling initialization order - this sort of issue is why in OTel we discourage the global. I agree...

What if we add a class to the opencensus-shim, `OpenCensusShim.resetOpenTelemetry()`, which just calls `resetForTest`? It will also nicely allow the method to be naturally removed when finally removing the shim....

Hi @barend - we do already have the stack trace recording, is it not working for you? https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/blob/main/api/all/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/api/GlobalOpenTelemetry.java#L105

@punya Do you happen to know anyone that would be able to provide information on the plans for OpenTelemetry integration for gcloud SDK Java users? For the record, I tried...

Hi @trask - I would say exporters are already non-blocking since they make the export request but don't block waiting for it to complete, there would only be blocking if...

I think this was mainly to avoid having per-signal artifacts like we have for the normal OTLP exporter to avoid having a sea of artifacts. In hindsight it probably wasn't...

Hi @Emily-Jiang - currently there is strong coupling between the OpenTelemetry API and the OpenTelemetry instrumentation ecosystem. Notably, instrumentation records both traces and metrics for libraries with a single entrypoint...

@Emily-Jiang I think this will have to be handled with documentation in MicroProfile then. OpenTelemetry instrumentation expects the entire API, even if parts are no-op if a user isn't using...

Hi @zeitlinger - because of how import it is to close when activating a new context, we do need the core API to separate the concepts of creating a span...