[discussion] long-term maintenance of otel-cli

[tobert]

I would like to propose donating otel-cli to the OpenTelemetry community. I've spoken briefly with @displague at Equinix and @austinlparker as my connection to the OTel governing committee and this seems like a good time to do it. I understand there's work to do on the Equinix side of things to get approvals for the handoff, so this might take some time.

If this is agreeable to Equinix we can collaborate on filling out a donation issue on the OTel community repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/new?assignees=&labels=donation&projects=&template=donation.yml&title=%5BDonation+Proposal%5D:+

While we figure this out, I will continue to keep an eye on issues & PRs here. Equinix folks have offered to make sure the repo & package machinery keeps working until we have an agreed long-term solution.

[displague]

All clear on this end, @tobert.

I'd open the donation issue but it should come from you (I would only mirror your answers to many of the questions).

I will assist with the org migration needs once/if the donation is accepted.

In the request, we can link back to this issue and https://deploy.equinix.com/labs/otel-cli/ for more details.