Damien Mathieu

Update release tracking issue to match the actual release docs

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The release tracking issue is a bit misleading, as not all actions are actually performed by the collector release manager. And some actions don't really reflect the release docs. This...

Define/clarify ownership of go.opentelemetry.io

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This follows [last week's incident](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go-opentelemetry-io-expired-certificate/) on go.opentelemetry.io. This incident was caused by the newly added CAA DNS entry which prevented Google AppEngine from renewing the certificate. We're looking into ways...

Audit otelhttp API

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We're starting to look into stabilizing the [go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp) package. For that, we need to audit the public API of the package, not for missing things (as those could be added...

Add linter checking we use the latest semconv version

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This is inspired by https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/44606 Mongo is the only package with an older semconv. See #8230 to move forward with the upgrade.

otelhttp: make DefaultClient a non-mutable variable

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DefaultClient is a mutable global variable - replace with something immutable or remove entirely

These semantic conventions-esque constants should be upstreamed and removed from the package before stabilization.

We should check that all telemetry instrumentations are emitting is backed by semantic conventions. weaver allows doing that with its [registry live-check](https://github.com/open-telemetry/weaver/blob/main/crates/weaver_live_check/README.md) tool. The idea would be: * Run weaver...

This upgrades are blocked until we drop support for Go 1.24. * https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/pull/7908