Project is being Sunset

[MikeGoldsmith]

This project has outlived its useful lifespan, and we intend to deprecate it in the future. Honeycomb recommends using the official OpenTelemetry Go SDK, and using individual contrib components as required. The official OpenTelemetry Go SDK is stable and has grown to offer most of the ergonomic benefits that this distribution has historically offered.

If you are actively using this distribution and feel the official OpenTelemetry SDK does not meet your needs, please file an issue here with your use case.

The following links may be useful:

• Honeycomb OSS lifecycle and practices.
• Configuring the OpenTelemetry SDK for language with Honeycomb.

[nordfjord]

If you are actively using this distribution and feel the official OpenTelemetry SDK does not meet your needs

We're using the distribution, but the main thing we use the Honeycomb distro for is the BaggageSpanProcessor, will that be released as a separate (maintained) package, or is there no need for it anymore to handle multi-span attributes?

[josegonzalez]

Should this be called out in the docs here? https://docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/go/honeycomb-distribution/

[MikeGoldsmith]

If you are actively using this distribution and feel the official OpenTelemetry SDK does not meet your needs

We're using the distribution, but the main thing we use the Honeycomb distro for is the BaggageSpanProcessor, will that be released as a separate (maintained) package, or is there no need for it anymore to handle multi-span attributes?

Yes, we're in the process of contributing the baggage span processor to otel-go-contrib so all OpenTelemetry users can benefit from multi-span attributes.

This project will continue to be maintained until we're confident it's no longer required but also want to indicate our intentions and gather feedback.

[MikeGoldsmith]

Should this be called out in the docs here? https://docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/go/honeycomb-distribution/

Agreed - we will update documentation when we're ready to take steps towards sunsetting this project. For now, we intend to continue to maintain this project and are gathering feedback from users.