chore(jeager-exporter): deprecate jaeger exporter (#3585)

Co-authored-by: Daniel Dyla <dyladan@users.noreply.github.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ For experimental package changes, see the [experimental CHANGELOG](experimental/
 
 ### :house: (Internal)
 
+* chore(exporter-jaeger): deprecate jaeger exporter [#3585](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3585) @pichlermarc
 * fix(sdk-metrics): fix flaky LastValueAggregator test by using fake timer [#3587](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3587) @pichlermarc
 * fix(test): fix failing tests by preventing source-map generation [#3642](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3642) @pichlermarc
 

packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/README.md

@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
-# OpenTelemetry Jaeger Trace Exporter for Node.js
+# (Deprecated) OpenTelemetry Jaeger Trace Exporter for Node.js
 
 [![NPM Published Version][npm-img]][npm-url]
 [![Apache License][license-image]][license-image]
 
+**NOTE: Support for `@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger` will end March 2024, please use any of the following packages instead:**
+
+- `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-proto`
+- `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc`
+- `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http`
+
 OpenTelemetry Jaeger Trace Exporter allows the user to send collected traces to Jaeger.
 
 [Jaeger](https://jaeger.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), inspired by [Dapper](https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html) and [OpenZipkin](http://zipkin.io/), is a distributed tracing system released as open source by [Uber Technologies](http://uber.github.io/). It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems, including:

packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/src/jaeger.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ import * as jaegerTypes from './types';
 
 /**
  * Format and sends span information to Jaeger Exporter.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Jaeger supports the OpenTelemetry protocol natively
+ * (see https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.41/apis/#opentelemetry-protocol-stable).
+ * This exporter will not be required by the OpenTelemetry specification starting July 2023, and
+ * will not receive any security fixes past March 2024.
+ *
+ * Please migrate to any of the following packages:
+ * - `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-proto`
+ * - `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc`
+ * - `@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http`
  */
 export class JaegerExporter implements SpanExporter {
   private readonly _onShutdownFlushTimeout: number;