Esun Kim

We've decided to limit this proposal to the C++17 transition only. We'll repeat this process for future transitions.

Yeah, it's a good idea to have a way to have a minimal gRPC. But I'm not sure having an option like bazel is a good approach, though. Maybe we...

@dawidcha has been working on this. Any feedback from you?

It appears that gRPC's re2 cmake integration has multiple issues. [This](https://btx.cloud.google.com/invocations/fe79f095-8b79-40c7-9ef1-e99d48597444/targets) appears to capture all the issues.

@apolcyn Please take a look at this.

I tried to see whether this issue is still relevant but it turned out it's the case; ([log](https://btx-internal.corp.google.com/invocations/bde45bbf-85c1-4fda-8530-f7a0e06e4e3a/targets/%2F%2Ftools%2Fbazelify_tests%2Ftest:bazel_distribtest_7.1.0_distribtest_python;config=daa91819a258a80cb1ea70735ab0d7c451588e3a7b9aeb02de68149cb1f255ae/tests)) so I need to disable `distribtest_python` for Bazel 7 again. @gnossen @XuanWang-Amos...

Oh I just noticed that both Xuan and Richard will be out for 2 weeks. Then I'd like to get this merged first and consider rolling this back when they...

`GRPC_EXPERIMENTS` is an environment variable to enable or disable individual experiments. No plan to support this feature at a build time.

Thank you for the PR! Two more things needed; - https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry/tree/main/modules/opencensus-cpp needs a new release with the patch - Cocoapod needs this [update](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/81356d4ca363ffbea8f90b0f701a729f48c989e5/third_party/README.md?plain=1#L56-L57)

Yash, maybe you can create a separate PR just upgrading open-census only so that this is only for abseil upgrade.