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Define OTLP 1.0 Stability guarantees (#432)
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Resolves #400
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tigrannajaryan authored Apr 27, 2023
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Components marked `Stable` provide the following guarantees:

- Field types, numbers and names will not change.
- Numbers assigned to enum choices will not change.
- Service names and service package names will not change.
- Service operation names, parameter and return types will not change.

The following changes are allowed:

- Message names may change.
- Enum names may change.
- Enum choice names may change. This is allowed because enum choice names are not sent on
the wire.
- The location of messages and enums, i.e. whether they are declared at the top
lexical scope or nested inside another message may change.
- Package names may change.
- Directory structure, location and the name of the files may change.

Note that none of the above allowed changes affects the binary wire representation or the
JSON wire representation.
- Service method names will not change.
- Service method parameter names will not change.
- Service method parameter types and return types will not change.
- Service method kind (unary vs streaming) will not change.
- Names of messages and enums will not change.
- Names of enum choices and numbers assigned to enum choices will not change.
- The location of messages and enums, i.e. whether they are declared at the top lexical
scope or nested inside another message will not change.
- Package names and directory structure will not change.
- `optional` and `repeated` declarators of existing fields will not change.
- No existing symbol will be deleted.

The following additive changes are allowed:

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