OpenTelemetryServicesExtensions Location

[lawrence-laz]

Question

Currently OpenTelemetryServicesExtensions class is located in OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting package. This is a bit unusual, as other packages tend to have ServiceCollection extensions in a package postfixed with Extensions.DependencyInjection or Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection. For example:

• Autofac.Extensions.DependencyInjection
• AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection
• MediatR.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection
• MassTransit.Extensions.DependencyInjection

This doesn't cause any functional problems (as far as I see), but I found it confusing and so might other users. Was OpenTelemetry.Extensions.DependencyInjection considered?

[cijothomas]

The naming was discussed a while ago : #623 (comment)

Please take a look, and see if that makes sense, or do you think we should revisit the name?

[lawrence-laz]

Hm, I guess it makes sense once you look into it.

The confusion comes from the fact that hosting service is opaque to the consumer. I wouldn't have thought that there is a hosted service being registered just to kick-start tracing provider. Hence why my instinct was to look for DependencyInjection and not Hosting package.

I don't have a solution here, but I bet I will not be the last one confused.

[cijothomas]

Closing this, as the ext.hosting package is now released as stable.