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Stabilize Tracer enabled operation
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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Expand Up @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ release.

### Traces

- Stabilize Tracer `enabled` operation
([#4941](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4941))

### Metrics

### Logs
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions specification/trace/api.md
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Expand Up @@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ The `Tracer` SHOULD provide functions to:

#### Enabled

**Status**: [Development](../document-status.md)

To help users avoid performing computationally expensive operations when
creating `Span`s, a `Tracer` SHOULD provide this `Enabled` API.

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Expand Up @@ -219,12 +219,10 @@ However, the changes MUST be eventually visible.

### Enabled

**Status**: [Development](../document-status.md)

`Enabled` MUST return `false` when either:

- there are no registered [`SpanProcessors`](#span-processor),
- `Tracer` is disabled ([`TracerConfig.enabled`](#tracerconfig) is `false`).
- **Status**: [Development](../document-status.md) - `Tracer` is disabled ([`TracerConfig.enabled`](#tracerconfig) is `false`).

Otherwise, it SHOULD return `true`.
It MAY return `false` to support additional optimizations and features.
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