http.md

Description

Get the HTTP semantic conventions across the finish line to stability, and afterwards update existing HTTP instrumentation across all OpenTelemetry repositories to conform with the stable conventions.

Project Board

https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/41

Deliverables

• Mark the HTTP semantic conventions as stable.
• Update existing HTTP instrumentation across all OpenTelemetry repositories to conform with the stable conventions.

Staffing / Help Wanted

The goal is to follow @tedsuo's proposed Semantic Convention Process.

• Stage 1: SIG Preparation
• Stage 2: Specification
• Stage 3: Implementation

Required staffing for Stage 1 and 2

• @trask project lead
• @denisivan0v domain expert
• @lmolkova domain expert
• @mateuszrzeszutek prototyping in Java
• @reyang technical committee sponsor
• @jsuereth technical committee sponsor
• Need: more domain experts
• Need: engineers willing to write prototypes in at least one more language other than Java. Language should be fairly different from Java (for example: Python).
• Need: maintainers or approvers from those languages committed to reviewing the prototypes.

Required staffing for Stage 3

• @trask project lead
• @mateuszrzeszutek updating Java instrumentation
• Need: engineers across all languages willing to update existing HTTP instrumentation across all OpenTelemetry repositories to conform with the stable conventions.
• Need: maintainers or approvers across all languages committed to reviewing the updates.

Meeting Times

Once a project is started, the SIG should meet regularly for discussion. These meeting times should be posted on the OpenTelemetry public calendar.

Timeline

All work has been completed.