Path to OTel Code Owner: Lessons from otelhttp (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

Why watch

In this community call, Sonal Gaud shares her journey from contributing test-coverage PRs to becoming code owner of otelhttp, then explains how the library works under the hood: context propagation, metrics and attributes via the Labeler, route cardinality considerations, and HTTP semantic conventions. The discussion also covers what it takes to review PRs and maintain backward compatibility in a widely used OpenTelemetry contrib package. This is valuable for Go developers using or contributing to OpenTelemetry instrumentation.