Jack Berg

Java Prototype: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/7907

> Providing structured event bodies is possible too - it's a bit more complicated and nuanced This is the key question to me. Even if its possible to record structured...

Don't know the answer to this, but genai introduces the opportunity for asymmetric effort between PR author and maintainers which further stresses an already lopsided social dynamic: - Contributors can...

If we add support for log level to file config, we can standardize on an enumeration, and let each language define how values map to their ecosystem. A natural starting...

If I understand this right, the code contains not only an alternative opentelemetry API than the one in opentelemetry-java (which is more idiomatic for kotlin users) but also an entirely...

Did a little more research into kotlin multi platform (apologies I'm new to this and naive) and it does indeed appear that something like this would be necessary for OpenTelemetry...

> Because we want the declarative config to act in a WYSIWYG, then maybe instead of going forward with https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/4583 we should try adding some "configuration hooks" to the declarative...

Discussed this in 12/17/25 TC meeting and don't have any objections to this.

We should see if we can accomplish this purely through the W3C Baggage Propagator. The issue with having this be an instrumentation level configuration is that it will be difficult...

> @open-telemetry/configuration-approvers PTAL @pellared is correct. This already exists in declarative config. With declarative config approaching stability and lots of language implementations coming along nicely, we might want to consider...