Zig SIG: current level of interest?

[inge4pres]

Hey there folks 👋🏼
This card is up to gauge interest in maintaining a Zig implementation.

Zig is a language that is fully inter-operable with C, so producing an API and an SDK in Zig enables Zig and C programmers to onboard OpenTelemetry signals in their applications.

At first, the purpose of this groups would be:

• create the API with regards to the OpenTelemetry specification
• provide and maintain an SDK, the official implementation of signals collection and processing
• provide a Semantic Convention library

Optionally further on, the building blocks listed above and created along the way could be used to complement auto-instrumentation and other parts of OpenTelemetry written in languages speaking the C ABI (BPF-based agents, CGO for Go, Rust FFI, CPython, etc...), because of how Zig compiles to C and BPF natively.

Downside: Zig is not 1.0 yet, so there may be some additional maintenance effort in keeping up to date the code with the language releases.

Currently, there is work-in-progress in unofficial implementations for metrics and traces.

If anyone is interested in progressing this work, please introduce yourself and let's chat :)

[kakkoyun]

I would be interested and happy to help.

[Drumato]

I tried to develop a toy implementation of the OpenTelemetry by Zig that is cited above, and I was invited to this forces by @inge4pres (thanks a lot!).
So I'd be happy to help in any way I can, even if it's just a little.

[inge4pres]

work in progress is happening in this repo

https://github.com/zig-o11y/opentelemetry-sdk

[svrnm]

@inge4pres @kakkoyun @Drumato thanks for raising this issue and your interest in creating a Zig SIG. If you are serious about this endavour, please take a look into the following document that outlines how you can get started with a new project:

https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/project-management.md

[devatbosch]

Hi @inge4pres ,

Seems am little late to the party, just wanted to express my interest for this project and would be happy to help on the associated topics. Would be great if I can be taken up.

Bit about me:
Am a Software Engineer in the automotive domain. Have recently started contributing to open-source but love learning new technologies. Primarily, I have worked with C and Python.

Do let me know if I too can provide any support to your repo.

Thank You!

[inge4pres]

@devatbosch I invited you as a collaborator in the repo!
Feel free to drop issues and poke into the open PRs 👍🏼

[inge4pres]

If you are serious about this endavour, please take a look into the following document that outlines how you can get started with a new project:

https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/project-management.md

hello @svrnm I read the link you shared, thanks for that!
After reading it I'm not 100% sure what forming a SIG entails, can it be compared to proposing a project?
What would be the outcome: that the project is either approved or dismissed, after community discussion?

[danielgblanco]

The formation/bootstrapping of the SIG would be the project itlsef, with some short term deliverables and proposed timelines (e.g. to deliver API/SDK compliance to a certain version). It helps to have a checkpoint after the project is delivered, and decide on the health of the SIG to continue or not. See an example here.