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A developer named Mat Duggan built a spreadsheet tracking OpenTelemetry's (OTel) issue and pull request history, and the numbers point to an uncomfortable conclusion: the project that succeeded at vendor neutrality is now struggling to ship features at a pace its adopters expect. OTel is the de facto instrumentation standard in cloud-native environments, backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Duggan's analysis argues the project's own process has become its biggest bottleneck. What's Happening A developer named Mat Duggan compiled a spreadsheet tracking OpenTelemetry's issue and PR history across its repositories, and the data tells an uncomfortable story: the project that succeeded at vendor neutrality is now struggling to ship features at the pace its adopters expect. OTel is the de facto standard for instrumentation in cloud-native environments, backed by the CNCF, but Duggan's analysis argues that its own process has become the bott...