Joshua MacDonald

Define TraceState handling for root spans with `NewRootTraceState` option

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**What are you trying to achieve?** As discussed in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4162, there is a pending sampling specification that defines the use of TraceState set _before creating a root span_. In some...

Document interoperability for OpenTelemetry sampling specifications

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**What are you trying to achieve?** OpenTelemetry has pending tracing specification work, #4162 and #4166. These specification documents do not provide any detail for vendors with existing sampling systems to...

**Describe the bug** As discussed in https://github.com/lightstep/otel-launcher-go/pull/793, testing is incomplete for global asynchronous instrument registration. The SDK will log errors but no test actually fails when registration is broken. **To...

RFC: Consistent timeout handling in Collector pipelines

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#### Description Calls for deadline-awareness across common Collector pipeline components, including batch processors, queue sender, retry and timeout senders. #### Link to tracking issue Part of #11183 #### Testing n/a...

RFC: Error transmission through batching components

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#### Description Draft RFC addresses #11308. #### Link to tracking issue Fixes #11308. #### Testing n/a #### Documentation This is a new RFC. As these changes are accepted and made,...

Add @v0y4g3r and @albertlockett as arrow-approvers, remove inactive phase-1 approvers

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@v0y4g3r is the original author of `otel-arrow-rust` @albertlockett has made substantial contributions in `otel-arrow-rust` I will remove two approvers who contributed during Phase 1 that are now inactive, since we...

Move all Golang code under go/

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This implies renaming the pkg/ directory to go/ There is Go code under collector/, and I expect to continue maintaining some sort of custom component in this repository, therefore I...

Rust OTLP and OTAP pipeline data development

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To build the OTAP pipeline and test it using OTLP data input and output, we need an easy way build and inspect pipeline data. The Golang collector has a "pdata"...

OTel-Arrow Phase 2

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## Summary The OTel-Arrow team is embarking on Phase 2 of the project. The OTel-Arrow Protocol (OTAP) is a proposed enhancement to the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). [This was planned in...

As @lquerel suggested here, https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/36140#discussion_r1830502164, we may wish to reduce the potential for lock contention. The initial contents of the PR contain an `admission2` package which is derived from a...