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Deprecate conventions that are not namespaced

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the referenced model/attributes/app_start_type.json and model/attributes/channel.json files, then audit the conventions documents for other non-namespaced attributes. Compare those attributes with the SDKs' sent data as described in the issue. Done means the remaining attributes are documented, deprecated where appropriate, and SDKs consistently send namespaced alternatives.

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Description

Task

Conventions that aren't namespaced like https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-conventions/blob/main/model/attributes/app_start_type.json and https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-conventions/blob/main/model/attributes/channel.json are problematic. They have a high chance to collide with user set attributes, and the key itself is not very meaningful.

We should aim to

  1. ensure that the conventions documents all non-namespaced attributes being sent from the sdks
  2. deprecate the non-namespaced attributes in favour of namespaced attributes.
  3. we should update the sdks to always send namespaced attributes

Some of these are already deprecated, so we only have to action on the one's that are not.

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TypeScript
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