23Q2-Q4 planning for chalin

[chalin]

🟢 Actively being worked on:

• Schema improvements (2023/11) #3476

🟡 Top / next to do:

• Adjust to refactoring of specifications (Q3-Q4) #2793
  • Post specs update: address 404s and reenabled all checks #3392
  • Adjust to move Semantic Conventions out of OTel spec #2721
• Add an OTel training+certs showcase #3463
• Re-do vendors page & consider new adopters page #2178
• Contribution guidelines needs rework or should be dropped #897
• Make build and CI more contributor friendly #2448
• CI: external-link check follow up and link cleanup #2429
• Address GDPR compliance requirements #1636
• Create and use a config/section parameter for release versions for each language + collector #1194
• Contribution guidelines needs rework or should be dropped #897
• [CI/infra] Git submodule woes: improve contributor experience #3149

🔴 Blocked/awaiting review or merge:

• ...

🟠 Other to do:

• ...

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☑️ Done (selected):

For a complete list, see merged 23Q2-Q4 PRs.

• CI/infra improvements - 2023/11 #3458
• Find a better way to use tabpane shortcodes #3127
• Blog: ensure that current year is open in the sidebar #3415
• CI improvements - 2023/10 #3218
• Drop Additional Terminology section from glossary #3400
• Blog left-side navigation only shows limited number of blog posts #2851
• Support page-relative aliases #3417
• CI improvements - 2023/08 #3122
• CI improvements - 2023/07 #3083
• Top 404s 2023/07 #3013
• CI: add GH action to surface build warnings and other secondary checks #2814
• Adjust to move of OTLP specs into opentelemetry-proto #2642
• Add GH action to pull in latest release of the OTel specification #2387
• ...

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General top items, infrastructure tasks (high & medium priority), carried over from #1511 (comment):

1. GDPR - Address GDPR compliance requirements #1636
2. Policies for redirects for deleted pages
3. Check For External Links - CI: check external links #1052
4. Section Parameters for component versions:
   • Create and use a config/section parameter for release versions for each language + collector #1194
   • Set up bot for spec and collector contrib version bumps upon a release #1963
5. Markdown Checks - CI: check file formatting, including markdown #1063
6. Tooling for code excerpts

Later I'll convert the above to a real task, and copy other other relevant items from #1511.

Prev/next:

• 23Q1 planning for chalin #2163
• 2024/01 planning for Patrice #3739

[chalin]

Done, follow through with:

• 2024/01 planning for Patrice #3739