> (Apologies for my ignorance in advance if I am way off on he motivations for OpenZipkin.)
No worries. OpenZipkin was created for governance reasons. For example to help ensure progress doesn't have a single point of failure.
Here's the motivation thread https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/zipkin-dev/hug_bWIqdLY
> Will OpenZipkin core be in Java or scala? If it will be usable within a Java app without pulling in scala runtime, I will be interested in seeing if we can move to it within netflix.
OpenZipkin is a community. If the community wants to move core to java, and want to write code to do that.. then that will happen! Having Netflix on board would be awesome.
Here's a related issue, which will migrate with the code to OpenZipkin org tomorrow https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/issues/451