Consider deprecating the opencensus exporter and receiver

[atoulme]

Component(s)

exporter/opencensus, receiver/opencensus

Describe the issue you're reporting

The OpenCensus functionality has been around for a bit but is now superceded by OTLP.

I propose that we start deprecating those components, and set a deadline for removal.

The calendar would work as follows:

• Mark the components as deprecated
• 6 months later, delete the components.
  This will give time to anyone using the components to make plans. We can make the duration of the deprecation longer based on community input.

Please provide your feedback as comments and reactions. Before we proceed, I would like to make sure we receive a healthy number of 👍 from approvers and maintainers of the repository.

[github-actions]

Pinging code owners:

• exporter/opencensus: @open-telemetry/collector-approvers
• receiver/opencensus: @open-telemetry/collector-approvers

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[github-actions]

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Pinging code owners:

• exporter/opencensus: @open-telemetry/collector-approvers
• receiver/opencensus: @open-telemetry/collector-approvers

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[atoulme]

I have not heard back on this plan yet. I will move to open a first PR to deprecate the components and publish a deprecation and removal schedule for review by approvers.

[dashpole]

I support deprecating both. 6 months seem like a reasonable time period to migrate off to me.