add blog post announcing proposed changes/oteps for stability work by austinlparker · Pull Request #8208 · open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io

austinlparker · 2025-10-23T16:45:40Z

Adds a blog from the GC discussing proposed changes to stability and future project work/direction. cc @open-telemetry/governance-committee

Preview: https://deploy-preview-8208--opentelemetry.netlify.app/blog/2025/stability-proposal-announcement/

julianocosta89 · 2025-10-23T19:48:41Z

One point that is not mentioned on the blog, but it is important to help users navigate the project is repositories structure.
I was discussing SemConv with a colleague and I've noticed that each programming language has a different way of organizing them:

.NET has it on the contrib repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.SemanticConventions
Go on the core repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/tree/main/semconv/v1.37.0
Java on a separate repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-java

It would be great if we could follow the same pattern across all languages.

dmathieu · 2025-10-24T08:57:37Z

I wonder if this post should emphasize more that all these are proposals that (I think and hope) need to be properly discussed with maintainers and contributors before they are finalized, and that the way they end up being implemented may change based on discussions with all the stakeholders of the project.

pichlermarc

Big change. Personally, I love this idea. 🙌

I think this aligns very well with the the idea behind the JS SIG's focus-topic selection criteria - having backing for something like this on a project-wide level AND having this communicated so publicly sounds like it has the potential to be a huge boost to stabilization efforts.

evan-bradley

Mostly just wordsmithing suggestions right now, thanks for putting this together!

austinlparker · 2025-10-29T15:55:21Z

notes from gc call

add an exec summary to top
expand on next steps (don't overcorrect or overread into this blog -- we will figure out the guidance thru the process)
add alternate feedback avenues outside of GitHub discussion (listserv, end user sig, slack, office hours)
set timeline expectations; define order of operations and rough time box for it

- Add 'and lack of stability' to complexity statement - Change 'own your own instrumentation' to 'publish and maintain your own instrumentation' - Remove 'not as well-defined as the earlier proposals' language - Clarify that epoch releases don't require changing component versioning/release cadence

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- Change "Our Goals" from emphasis to heading (MD036) - Rename duplicate "Background" headings to be unique (MD024) - Rename duplicate "Goals and Objectives" headings to be unique (MD024)

Add deprioritize, incentivized, and rollouts to dictionary.

Move spelling exceptions from global dictionary to page-local to avoid affecting other files.

mtwo

@austinlparker the new intro resolves my concerns, thanks for doing all of the legwork on this - I know that it wasn't easy

alolita

Thanks @austinlparker for patiently looking at the feedback on this post and incorporating :-) This post reads well #ShipIt

tiffany76

A few tiny fixes, but otherwise good to go. 🚀

chalin

See inline comments, they suggest changing to today's date, and other front-matter cleanup.

Otherwise I defer to others for a full review.

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svrnm · 2025-11-08T06:30:12Z

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- Change "Our Goals" from emphasis to heading (MD036) - Rename duplicate "Background" headings to be unique (MD024) - Rename duplicate "Goals and Objectives" headings to be unique (MD024)

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