Blog: Enhancing Acknowledgment of Community Contributions in OpenTelemetry Profiling

[Rperry2174]

This PR introduces modifications to the blog post about OpenTelemetry's profiling support to better acknowledge the contributions of various community members and organizations. The key changes include:

Expanded Acknowledgements: We're enhancing the acknowledgements section to highlight the collaborative efforts within the Profiling SIG.

Inclusive Recognition: Specifically mentioning contributions from companies like Grafana Labs, Datadog, and Red Hat to recognize their significant input

Highlighting Community Contributions:

• Mentioning the proposals for the profiling data model (OTEPs 237 and 239)
• Acknowledging the broad-based discussion and alignment within the community on the profiling data format.

These changes aim to reflect the collective and diverse efforts that have been instrumental in advancing OpenTelemetry's profiling capabilities, ensuring that more key contributors are recognized and it's clearer that this is a community effort

More discussion on this in the thread here
relevant prs: #4183

[cartermp]

Thanks! This is a good addition.

[cartermp]

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[austinlparker]

temp hold on this

[cartermp]

yee yee

[disfluxly]

This is definitely needed. As a community member that has followed this pretty closely, I was very surprised not seeing Ryan and/or Grafana Labs anywhere in the original post.

[tedsuo]

Sorry to fuss over a blog post, but is it possible to list the people, not the companies? In OTel we prefer to highlight individual contributions, it sometimes ruffle feathers when public communication from the project can be interpreted as an advertisement for certain companies.

If it's a big donation it's one thing, but when we're talking about SIG contributions we try to focus on individuals.

[felixge]

Thanks Ryan 🙇

[felixge]

Sorry to fuss over a blog post, but is it possible to list the people, not the companies? In OTel we prefer to highlight individual contributions, it sometimes ruffle feathers when public communication from the project can be interpreted as an advertisement for certain companies.

If it's a big donation it's one thing, but when we're talking about SIG contributions we try to focus on individuals.

How about naming individuals with their company names in parens? Otherwise this approach raises questions about the value of SIG work vs code donations.

[cartermp]

How about naming individuals with their company names in parens?

I would support this. Most of us work as a mix of individual contributions and time spent on behalf of our companies. It's just a nice big smorgasborg of attribution

[austinlparker]

lgtm

[tedsuo]

@felixge thats totally fine, it's usually how we do it.