Authored by the “bootstrap committee” (Ben Sigelman, Bogdan Drutu, Sarah Novotny, Sergey Kanzhelev, and Yuri Shkuro) for the merged project. Two projects — OpenTracing and OpenCensus — are very similar in that they aim to unify app instrumentation and make observability a built-in feature in every modern application. Over the past few months, leaders from both communities have formed a seed commit
![Merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/a974cdfd1e930134ecf1cee801aad29e5f1f040e/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fmiro.medium.com%2Fv2%2Fresize%3Afit%3A665%2F1%2AOlh4hJc_m4ZkU43I8t7s5w.png)