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| # Versioning | ||
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| This document describes the versioning policy for this repository. | ||
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| ## Goals | ||
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| ### API Stability | ||
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| Once the API for a given signal (spans, logs, metrics, baggage) has been officially released, that API module will function with any SDK that has the same MAJOR version and equal or greater MINOR or PATCH version. For example, application compiled with API v1.1 is compatible with SDK v1.1.2, v1.2.0, etc. | ||
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| For example, libraries that are instrumented with `opentelemetry 1.0.1` will | ||
| function in applications using `opentelemetry 1.11.33` or `opentelemetry | ||
| 1.3.4`. | ||
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| ### SDK Stability | ||
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| Public portions of the SDK (constructors, configuration, end-user interfaces) | ||
| must remain backwards compatible. Internal types are allowed to break. | ||
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| ### ABI Stability | ||
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| Refer [ABI Policy](./docs/abi-policy.md) for more details. To summarise | ||
| * ABI stability is guaranted for API. | ||
| * ABI stability is not guaranteed for SDK. C++ In case of ABI breaking changes, instead of bumping up the majore version, new `inline namespace` version will be crearted, and both old API and new API would be made available simultaneously. | ||
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| ## Policy | ||
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| * Release versions will follow [SemVer 2.0](https://semver.org/). | ||
| * Only single source package containing api and sdk for all signals would be released as part of the new GitHub release. | ||
| * There would be source package releases for api and sdk. There won't be separate releases for the signals. The release version numbers for api and sdk will not be in sync with each other. As there would be more frequent changes expected in sdk then in api. | ||
| * Experimental releases: New (unstable) telemetry signals and features will be introduced behind feature flag using C macro define. | ||
| ``` | ||
| #ifdef FEATURE_FLAG | ||
| <metrics api/sdk definitions> | ||
| #endif | ||
| ``` | ||
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| As we deliver package in source form, and the user is responsible to build them for their platform, they must be | ||
| aware of these feature flags (documented in CHANGELOG.md), and enable it explicitly through their build system (cmake | ||
| , bazel or others ) to use the preview feature. | ||
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| The guidelines in creating feature flag would be: | ||
| - Naming: | ||
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| - `ENABLE_<SIGNAL>_PREVIEW` : For experimetal release of signal api/sdks eg, METRICS_PREVIEW, LOGGING_PREVIEW, | ||
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| - `ENABLE_<SIGNAL>_<FEATURE_NAME>_PREVIEW` : For experimental release for any feature within stable signal. Eg, TRACING_JAEGER_PREVIEW to release the experimental Jaeger exporter for tracing. | ||
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| - Cleanup: It is good practice to keep feature-flags shortlived as possible. And, aslo important to keep the number of them low. They should be used such that it is easy to remove/cleanup them once the experimental feature is stable. | ||
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| * New signals will be stabilized via a **minor version bump**, and are not allowed to break existing stable interfaces. | ||
| Feature flag would be removed once we have a stable implementation for the signal. | ||
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| * GitHub releases will be made for all released versions. | ||
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| ## Example Versioning Lifecycle | ||
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| Purely for illustration purposes, not intended to represent actual releases: | ||
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| - v0.0.1 release: | ||
| - `opentelemetry-api 0.0.1` | ||
| - Contains experimental api's of trace, resouce ( no feature flag as major version is 0 ) | ||
| - No api's of logging and metrics available | ||
| - `opentelemetry-sdk 0.0.1` | ||
| - Contains experimental implementation of trace, resouce ( no feature flag as major version is 0 ) | ||
| - No implemtation of logging and metrics available | ||
| - v1.0.0 release: ( with traces ) | ||
| - `opentelemetry-api 1.0.0` | ||
| - Contains stable apis of trace, baggage and resource | ||
| - experimental metrics api's behind feature flag | ||
| - `opentelemetry-sdk 1.0.0` | ||
| - Contains stable implementation of trace, baggage and resource | ||
| - experimental metrics api's behind feature flag | ||
| - v1.5.0 release (with metrics) | ||
| - `opentelemetry-api 1.5.0` | ||
| - Contains stable api's of metrics, trace, baggage, resource, context modules | ||
| - experimental logging api still only behind feature flag | ||
| - `opentelemetry-sdk 1.5.0` | ||
| - Contains stable implementation of metrics, trace, baggage, resource, context modules | ||
| - experimental logging implementation still only behind feature flag | ||
| - v1.10.0 release (with logging) | ||
| - `opentelemetry-api 1.10.0` | ||
| - Contains stable api's of logging, metrics, trace, baggage, resource, context modules | ||
| - `opentelemetry-sdk 1.10.0` | ||
| - Contains stable sdk of logging, metrics, trace, baggage, resource, context modules | ||
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| ### Before moving to version 1.0.0: | ||
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| - Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable. |