Add registry tip to ocb

[svrnm]

A small addition to the collector builder documentation, that the registry can be used to find configuration for components.

[theletterf]

Couple of wording suggestions

[svrnm]

@open-telemetry/collector-approvers PTAL

[chalin]

Copyedits

[chalin]

Suggested change

	To find components that you can add to your custom Collector, take a look
	the
	[OpenTelemetry Registry](https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/?language=collector).
	In addition to available components, the Registry provides the full string you need to
	add to your `builder-config.yaml`.
	For a list of components that you can add to your custom collector, see the [OpenTelemetry Registry](/ecosystem/registry/?language=collector). Note that registry entries provide the full string you need to add to your `builder-config.yaml`.

By the way, what is "the full string" -- i.e., it is a full string of what? The component name or ID?

[chalin]

Btw, IMHO, "collector" should be in lowercase (as I suggest in the previous comment) in "custom collector" because we're not talking about the OTel Collector. WDYT?

[svrnm]

the "full string" is something like this:

exporters:
    - gomod:
        github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/influxdbexporter v0.108.0

I see how this is not clear, the "full component name and version you need" might be better?

It's still an OpenTelemetry Collector, it's just a custom one, I guess?

[chalin]

I see how this is not clear, the "full component name and version you need" might be better?

Yes. I see that you've made this change already. Thanks.

It's still an OpenTelemetry Collector, it's just a custom one, I guess?

Well, the fact that you write "an OpenTelemetry Collector" means that even you don't think that it is the Collector. IMHO, the Collector should refer to a fixed (for any given version) binary. Does that make sense?

[svrnm]

Hm, there is no fixed binary of the collector afaik, even for the ones we deliver as community there is "Core" and "Contrib" and some other distributions. My understanding so far was, that we say Collector when we mean an OpenTelemetry collector build from https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector, this includes the "Whatever Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector", and custom Collectors, but if someone has a component that collects telemetry or whatever it's a collector.

[theletterf]

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