@bogdandrutu out of curiosity, of specifying Context as the single source of parenthood goes in, this would become required for GA?

@bogdandrutu @Oberon00 You guys think is is needed after the related PR was merged?

cc @alolita

@carlosalberto I think "needed" is the wrong word, just the SpanContext should work as well as before it is not needed more than before but I think it now makes even more sense. Note that among other things, this gives access to the full parent span in many cases, instead of only the SpanContext.

I think this is really a straightforward, simple to implement (maybe even simplifying) and beneficial change since #875 and also #994 was merged some time ago. @open-telemetry/specs-approvers please review!

Please add an entry in the spec compliance matrix (preferably marking it as "[SDK]" or something in case we'll split the table later on).

It feels like the changelog and compliance matrix should somehow be merged...

I'll add the line in the table.

Done in f081f86.
I did not add the [SDK] prefix since it's in a Sampling section which is all-SDK anyway.

@open-telemetry/specs-approvers Please review. Although not something required-for-GA, it's still allowed to go in and looks straight enough ;)

This PR has been semantically unchanged since 25 days ago and it has two approvers from different companies, so can we just merge it? @open-telemetry/technical-committee

Otherwise I will bring it up in the SIG spec meeting tomorrow, unless it can get more reviews until then 😃 @open-telemetry/specs-approvers @open-telemetry/specs-trace-approvers

@Oberon00 Lets mention it tomorrow, please (although I'm strongly inclined to merge it already, as it's a natural progression of allowing Context to be the only parenthood source).