John Watson

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None of the maintainers are very familiar with OSGI, so your best bet is a contribution at this point.

also true on a mac. Would be extremely useful for remote mobbing where mobster is not on a single shared screen.

This would be something added to the Tracing SDK, correct? `recordException` is currently just semantic sugar for adding an event to the span. I think you could create your own...

That class you see there, "ImmutableExceptionEventData" is what is generated by the SDK when you `span.recordException(...)`. If you don't use that method to record your exceptions, you can format the...

> Directly via addEvent(String name, Attributes attributes)? Ok. Thanks. I do think your issue is a legitimate one. I'm not sure what the right solution is, though. If you could...

Yes, we are very very understaffed in otel-java at the moment. Only one full time maintainer, and me, who is part-time. So, any significant changes like this will require community...

I'm not necessarily opposed to this approach, but it does feel like a band-aid on something that should be easier to do with auto-configuration. I don't have a concrete proposal,...

👍🏽 before we merge, are we sure the user from [that conversation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/5986#discussion_r1412295799) still needs this?

I haven't been following all the details here, but one thing that is non-negotiable... everything must be configurable, by an end-user writing code using public APIs. We cannot have "hidden",...