Decide on the versioning for instrumentation packages

[ocelotl]

How will versioning be for instrumentation packages? We should have an answer for that question.

@lzchen please confirm this is the actual topic that you wanted to discuss in this issue 😅

[aabmass]

Probably related #1159

[lzchen]

@aabmass
Could you explain a little about how that issue is related?

[lzchen]

@ocelotl
Trying to job my memory. I believe this issue was created to track the discussion on how we want to version the instrumentation packages. The core packages (api, sdk) will be versioned according to the RATIONALE.md doc, which will follow OT guidelines for versioning and releasing, however the other packages do not need to be versioned together with the core packages.
Another topic of discussion is how we will deal with versioning of the "add-on" packages opentelemetry-distro, opentelemetry-instrumentation, etc.

Currently, we are keeping all the instrumentation package versions in sync with core, and we bump each package version on each release REGARDLESS if there are changes in them or not.

Link to spec

[ocelotl]

@lzchen Is there already a decision made on this topic? I wonder if we can close this issue

[lzchen]

@codeboten
I don't remember if we came to a concensus.

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