Jack Berg

This is ready for review, but SHOULD not be merged. Assuming we get the required approvals, I'll coordinate merging this with cutting the corresponding release of `opentelemetry-configuration`.

The config SIG has been making a lot of progress around the goal of stability and will be looking to stabilize end of 2025 / early 2026. Converting this to...

Reposting a comment I made [here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/7562#issuecomment-3518928702): >My suggestion was to figure out if traditional log framework tooling can be used to the same effect. For example, supposing most users route...

Does anyone know if its possible to implement this by customizing `SSLCOntext`, `X509TrustManager`? I suspect not but still getting up to speed on the subject. It doesn't appear that the...

DefaultSynchronousMetricStorage tries to minimize locking and memory allocation, while also maintaining a small memory footprint. A simple locking strategy isn't going to cut it, but I'm open to suggestions on...

The argument that json makes payload modifications easier is middleware is a new one. Of course it's not applicable if you use the collector but a rich OTLP ecosystem will...

The scope for properties in this project is [dictated by the spec](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#what-properties-are-part-of-schema). If you want to see a flag like this, you'd need to first update the spec's OTLP SDK...

Yes, we need to document advice here. Will bring up in this weeks Java SIG. Related to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/issues/6604

> This prevents the instantiation of Senders outside of the SDK. Why?

FYI this is a copy of #7441 and #7430, which was opened right before I was out on leave. Since I came back I've been preoccupied with other things and...