Joshua MacDonald

In the current receiver code path, an Auth error allows the stream to survive but does not apply the request to its stream state. This will lead to downstream corruption...

### Description In https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/5881, there was discussion about the appearance of a possible panic in the internal/global meter package. If we intend to avoid every possibility of a panic due...

(batchprocessor): Add tracing support

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#### Description The batch processor is frequently responsible for breaking trace context for data passing through the collector. This fixes the batch processor to either continue the trace context (if...

(exporterhelper) Configuration package for timeout sender

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#### Description Adds a timeout configuration struct, consisting of the current setting (`timeout`) and a proposed-new setting `short_timeout_policy` with three defined values: "sustain" (default), "ignore" (override), and "abort" (fail fast)....

Batch processor concurrency and error transmission

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**Description** The OTel-Arrow project forked the batch processor component and extended it with support for concurrency and error transmission. We have been satisfied with this approach and wish to contribute...

(exporterhelper): Add exporterhelper timeout policy support

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#### Description Second half of https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/11183. Existing behavior is unchanged which is to sustain the short timeout, let it succeed if possible. Alternative behaviors: - "ignore": Ignore the short timeout,...

(otelarrowexporter) README: on batching w/ otel-arrow

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**Description:** Add documentation on the recommended methods for batching in conjunction with the OTel-Arrow exporter. **Testing:** Advice based on performance experiments summarized in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5198. **Documentation:** This.

Span Metrics connector support for OTEP 235 probability sampling

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### Component(s) connector/spanmetrics ### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. [OTEP 235](https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/blob/main/text/trace/0235-sampling-threshold-in-trace-state.md) describes how to encode sampling probability, and now [probabilistic sampler processor supports it](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31894). I...

Randomness requirements following W3C Trace Context level 2

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## Changes Updates Trace SDK and Propagator specifications with - List W3C propagator requirements (e.g., should propagate tracestate) - Introduce W3C Trace Context Level 2 w/ the Random flag -...

OpenTelemetry TraceIdRatioBased sampler requirements following OTEP 235

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Fixes #1413. ## Changes Updates Trace SDK and TraceState handling specifications with [OTEP 235 sampling thresholds](https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/blob/main/text/trace/0235-sampling-threshold-in-trace-state.md). This PR depends on https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4162 to introduce the concept of Trace Randomness. This PR...