Practically all activity has moved to the OpenTelemetry project, there are no resources to maintain the OpenTracing API libraries any more. OpenTelemetry provides a compatibility layer for OpenTracing instrumentation.

After discussing with other Specification Council members, we propose to freeze all development of the OpenTracing APIs effective immediately:

• No more new pull requests or feature requests will be accepted, only security fixes (which are unlikely given the nature of the API libraries).
• Add a DEPRECATED banner to the website: Change banner to say project is deprecated opentracing.io#460
• All API repos will be tagged as deprecated
• All API repos will be archived by the end of 2022.

cc @carlosalberto @tedsuo @bhs