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Clarification of ECS release process during Otel donation period #2332

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## How to contribute

## ECS Donation to OpenTelemetry
## ECS donation to OpenTelemetry
In April 2023, OpenTelemetry and Elastic made an [important joint announcement](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/ecs-otel-semconv-convergence/). In this announcement Elastic
shared its intention to achieve convergence of ECS and OTel Semantic Conventions into a single standard maintained
by OpenTelemetry.
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For these reasons, we need a process and guidelines for contributing to these data schemas during this period that
allows us to avoid breaking changes.

### ECS releases during the donation to OpenTelemetry
Historically, ECS has shipped a new version with every minor release of the Elastic stack. While the schema is
effectively frozen during the Otel donation period, this approach has been halted.

Moving forward, we will release ECS at the team's discretion as new material changes to the schema are adopted.

While the decision to release will be discretionary, any release will still coincide with a minor Elastic stack release;
however, not every minor version will warrant a new release of the stack.

### How to contribute during OTel donation of ECS

Bug fixes or minor field addition changes can be made directly to the ECS project and submitted as pull requests.
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