opentelemetry-proto tar archive contains spurious files

[marcalff]

The file opentelemetry-proto-1.4.0.tar.gz contains the following:

• buf.yaml
• package.json
• package-lock.json

which are also present in git in the opentelemetry-proto repository.

These do not look like items that should be maintained in git, and should be removed.

[tigrannajaryan]

The reason this happens is that the current release process does not have a build step. It simply ends up packing the entire repo's content into the release file.

[RajaVarmaGVSSR]

@tigrannajaryan is this open ? can I contribute ?

[tigrannajaryan]

@RajaVarmaGVSSR before creating a PR please post here what the plan is, what you would like to do. I would like it to be discussed before implementing. The plan needs to be simple, we don't want complicated release/build processes that add work for maintainers.

[RajaVarmaGVSSR]

@tigrannajaryan I would be just adding export-ignore for buf.yaml in .gitattributes, the existing git archive release process will respect .gitattributes and exclude the buf.yaml

[tigrannajaryan]

@tigrannajaryan I would be just adding export-ignore for buf.yaml in .gitattributes, the existing git archive release process will respect .gitattributes and exclude the buf.yaml

@RajaVarmaGVSSR I think this makes sense, I didn't know this was an option.

@open-telemetry/spec-sponsors any thoughts?

[codeboten]

The plan seems reasonable to me 👍🏻