Roadmap to Profiling Alpha

The roadmap below is an attempt to capture the things we want to complete in order to announce the graduation of the profiling signal to alpha as well as the dependencies between tasks.

Note: Nested items depend on each other.

## Pre-Alpha

- [x] @jsuereth https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/70
- [x] @jsuereth https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/71 which is blocking:
  - [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/14546
  - [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/14652
  - [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/46331
- [x] @felixge https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/3318 (schedule additional SIG meeting)
- [x] @aalexand https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/72
- [x] @christos68k https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/84
- [x] @felixge  https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/85 which is blocking
	- [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler/pull/1234 which is blocking
		- [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/86
- [x] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/74 which is blocking
  - [x] @jsuereth https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/73 which is blocking
	- [x] @felixge https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/76 which is blocking
- [ ] @florianl https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/774#issuecomment-4024247637 (probably not on the critical path)

## Alpha Release

- [x] @florianl @felixge https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/75

## Post-Alpha

- [ ] TBD https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/81
- [ ] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/issues/766
- [ ] @felixge  https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/82
- [x] @christos68k https://github.com/open-telemetry/sig-profiling/issues/83
- [ ] Think about documenting APIs (Start/Stop?) see 2026-03-12 notes
- [ ] Think about compatibility issues with OTTL where everything is int64, but we use unit64 in our protos. See 2026-03-12 notes

## Additiona Links

* [OTel Profiling SIG Meeting Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19UqPPPlGE83N37MhS93uRlxsP1_wGxQ33Qv6CDHaEp0/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.eipdg8dxyqvk)
* [Definition of maturity levels to be uniformly used by OpenTelemetry SIGs](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/oteps/0232-maturity-of-otel.md)
* [opentelemetry-proto README on experiments](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto#experiments)

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