Jack Berg

We've carried the boolean env var convention into the naming / defaults of component properties. The boolean env var convention is sensible enough, and following it when introducing new component...

So there are two questions that seem relevant to answer: 1. Do we want to re-litigate the boolean env var naming convention decided in #2755? 2. Do we like following...

> I think based on your argument, any option is a bad design for OpenTelemetry as a whole, since we are bound to have an inconsistency somewhere (be it within...

> It seems like they weren't added initially because they were optional at the time: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/issues/3938#issuecomment-995811446. Based on the specs above, they seem to be required now. Nah its been...

> @jack-berg is this correct? How should it be configured? Yes this is correct. This needs to be configured either programmatically with an extension and an [AutoConfigurationCustomizerProvider](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/java/configuration/#autoconfigurationcustomizerprovider) implementation. Its also...

> there is no available otel-collector for AIX to handle a http://localhost/ type setup. I don't understand. You can definitely run the collector in a way that its accessible on...

As you're surely seen, we have a sender abstraction that allows us to have different HTTP / gRPC client implementations backing OTLP exporters. This means we need to expose a...

> but SIG Config would be responsible for changing it. Why? If you generalize this guidance, the config SIG is responsible for driving all config of all spec components. We're...

A more flexible version of @dashpole's suggestion might look like: `remove(Predicate predicate)`, where the predicate is invoked for each series, with usage in java like: ``` instrument.remove(attributes -> true); //...

Also, if I call something like `instrument.remove(attributes -> true)` to delete all series, its not clear whether I intend to record additional data in the future. If I don't intend...