New Blog Post: The Collector goes v1

[mx-psi]

Important

The Collector is not ready for 1.0 yet. For now this is just for tracking within the Collector v1 project board.

Title of the blog post: (Tentative) The Collector goes v1.
Short description and outline of your blog post:

This would be a continuation of https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/collector-roadmap/, where we explain:

• The road to completing https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/ga-roadmap.md
• The sidecar distribution and what you can do with it
• The Go APIs that we have marked as v1 and what you can do with them
• The people that participated in making this happen
• What comes next and how people can help

We want to make sure the messaging comes across as: this is the start of a long process to mark components as 1.0 and you can join us in that process.

Related SIG: Collector SIG
Name of a sponsor (maintainer or approver) from this SIG, who will help to review that PR: I will put @atoulme here since we just talked about this today 😄

[atoulme]

thanks for nominating me to help review. I will be happy to help out.

[svrnm]

thanks for following the process here @mx-psi & @atoulme! Of course we will accept this blog post, looking forward to it :-)