Proposal: Establish consistent guidelines for organizing vendor specific contributions to the OpenTelemetry Collector

[alolita]

Proposal: Establish consistent guidelines for organizing vendor specific contributions to the OpenTelemetry Collector

[tigrannajaryan]

I propose that all vendor specific components for the Collector reside in the “github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib” repository.

This is already our policy today. However, rejections of vendor-specific proposals are still possible on the technical merit of the contributions (low quality code, poor test coverage, etc) or because the contributions are not aligned with Collector vision and roadmap.

I think it will be useful to have a document that makes this abundantly clear.