Shutting down exporters before calling threads.join()

[rajat315315]

Description

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Fixes #3309

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• Test A

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[ocelotl]

Thanks for the PR, @rajat315315, we do need at least one test that shows this change has the intended effect.

[ocelotl]

This would be a bugfix, please add an entry in the CHANGELOG file.

[lzchen]

I might be missing something here but isn't there reason we join before shutting down is because we want to wait for all the current telemetry in the queue to be exported before shutting down the exporter? Wouldn't we drop those pieces of telemetry if we switched the order?

[lzchen]

@rajat315315

Are you still working on this?

[ocelotl]

@rajat315315 we are closing this PR since we haven't received a reply in a while. Please reopen if you being work on it again.

[brightsparc]

This is still an issue, can we re-open this and work on landing this fix?

[lzchen]

@brightsparc

It doesn't look like the original author is working on this anymore. Feel to free to open a pr if you want this to be addressed asap.