Tyler Benson

@tedsuo How would you label server span with a parent propagated from an http request? Perhaps a better name would be `direct`/`indirect`? (Anything pulled directly from the current context would...

Good catch @marcoferrer. I'm pretty confident that will solve the problem. We want to evaluate better options in a future API refactor to allow us to remove the need to...

We realize this is not ideal. We have plans to improve it/remove the need for it, but not in the immediate term. Sorry for the trouble.

Call start and activate separately.

@billgowendavis Any update here? Would love to see this finished.

In my opinion, it should probably be `kafka` for the producer but use the configured service name for the consumer. What do you think?

Looks like someone made an attempt: #3639

Thanks @mcculls!

I don't know of a good way to do this without having a static reference to the context, likely via a threadlocal. Ratpack exposes something like this, Maybe you could...

Here's a suggestion... Have the `onSpanChanged` method be the primary interface, but include an adapter that converts it to the style that @yurishkuro wants. Given the constraints proposed by @mdvorak...