John Watson

I had a couple of questions, but I generally like this. What I really like about it is that it can be implemented in 2 phases. 1) implement the default...

I feel like this discussion is really talking about 2 separate things, and we should probably separate them into 2 separate oteps. 1) A *unique identifier* for an instance of...

how do you bootstrap this? Who are the initial maintainers of these new repositories? Doesn't this just add additional overhead to the existing maintainers' workload?

I'd like to understand the specific scope of this OTEP. "non-core components like Exporters" needs to be very carefully defined. Are propagators included in being "non-core"? What is included in...

FYI, JFR is probably the top JVM profiling tool, as it's built-in to the JVM these days.

> @jkwatson @MovieStoreGuy The top profiling tool for JVM is async-profiler :) The docs on that are seriously out of date...they still reference JFR as a commercial product. I guess...

well, now I can't find the ones I was just looking at, so /shrug. Also, this probably isn't the place to argue about specific profiling tools. :)

This is also true of the text report. It looks like this at the top of the output (for example): ``` Comparing source compatibility of against No changes. ```

Since the Resource isn't a feature of the OpenTelemetry APIs (just of the SDK), I think this is not something we will do. If you want to have the Resource...

How is the env var not also user-provided? The spec doesn't distinguish between system properties and env vars because system properties are a java-specific way to inject information into the...