Add blog entry about Jaeger OTLP and deprecation

[breedx-splk]

Feedback welcome. Thanks!

Preview: https://deploy-preview-1892--opentelemetry.netlify.app/blog/2022/jaeger-native-otlp/

[reese-lee]

Not a blog approver, but I think it's very clear and well-organized! I always appreciate these aspects of any written communication.

[cartermp]

Looks good overall! Just some small questions.

[cartermp]

Not sure if this is worth putting in the blog post, but a fairly "obvious" action we should take is ensuring that every piece of docs that explains how to set up a jaeger exporter needs updating to show how to do it with OTLP. I would expect anyone's feedback to this question to be dependent on what the plan is for that.

[breedx-splk]

Yeah agreed. I hope this isn't too much cart before the horse, and I would expect that we could update the docs during the deprecation phase.

[svrnm]

some comments

[austinlparker]

overall lgtm -- will this be cross-published onto the Jaeger blog?

[chalin]

See inline comments, thanks.

[cartermp]

@breedx-splk do you have permissions to cross-post to the jaeger blog as well?

[breedx-splk]

@breedx-splk do you have permissions to cross-post to the jaeger blog as well?
overall lgtm -- will this be cross-published onto the Jaeger blog?

@austinlparker @cartermp A really good idea. I've reached out to @yurishkuro on the spec issue to see if he can help with cross-posting.

[cartermp]

@breedx-splk sounds good to me. I am happy to merge as-is for now. Just a question of timing.

[yurishkuro]

I have a couple suggestions:

• be explicit in the blog about which exporters are in scope, like Thrift over UDP, Thrift over HTTP, etc.
• it may be worth a brief discussion on the implications of removing the exporters. Currently the blog sounds like it's nearly a complete no-op, just swap jaeger->otlp exporter, but that's not the case if people are running Jaeger agent.
• could we add a poll to the PR asking people to vote for the preferred length of deprecation phase?

[breedx-splk]

Ok, the survey is up and I've added links to it. I've also taken @yurishkuro's advice and spelled out exactly which exporters are to be deprecated and some high level descriptions of the user impact for each.
Thanks for helping out with this y'all.

[govindrai]

Now that Jaeger supports OTLP, this feels like a step backwards: It results in
an increased maintenance burden with very little benefit.

this text occurs is in the readme twice.

[breedx-splk]

Now that Jaeger supports OTLP, this feels like a step backwards: It results in
an increased maintenance burden with very little benefit.

this text occurs is in the readme twice.

Oof, thanks, I think that was a merge/rebase fail. Fixing that up now.

[yurishkuro]

@breedx-splk if you want to repost this to Jaeger blog, we have two options:

• I can do it as a copy & paste with a back link, or
• You can author the post on Medium and add it to the Jaeger publication. I will need to know your medium username to be able to add you as a writer.

[breedx-splk]

@breedx-splk if you want to repost this to Jaeger blog, we have two options:

• I can do it as a copy & paste with a back link, or
• You can author the post on Medium and add it to the Jaeger publication. I will need to know your medium username to be able to add you as a writer.

Thanks @yurishkuro. I'm flexible -- but I don't currently have a Medium account, so if you're willing to do a copy/paste that would be awesome! ❤️

[yurishkuro]

typo: depreation -> deprecation

[yurishkuro]

https://medium.com/@YuriShkuro/better-alignment-with-opentelemetry-by-focusing-on-otlp-f3688939073f

[breedx-splk]

https://medium.com/@YuriShkuro/better-alignment-with-opentelemetry-by-focusing-on-otlp-f3688939073f

Thanks again for your help and support! 🤜🏻 🤛🏻

[yurishkuro]

Looking forward to the survey results. Please post them in the PR. Do you have something in mind for how long you want to keep the survey open? 1-2w?

[breedx-splk]

@yurishkuro 2w seems good to me.