(batchprocessor): Add tracing support

[jmacd]

Description

The batch processor is frequently responsible for breaking trace context for data passing through the collector. This fixes the batch processor to either continue the trace context (if one parent) or to link the parent contexts. The motivation for this change goes beyond tracing. The same data structure is used in following PRs to address #11308, in which the pendingItem data structure will gain a channel so the export can inform the waiter about completion(s), in which the parentCtx.Done() channel is used to avoid blocking when the caller has already returned.

Link to tracking issue

Part of #11308

Testing

Two new tests for single-parent and multi-parent trace data.

Documentation

Added.

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 99.08257% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 91.51%. Comparing base (3456b43) to head (e52747a).
Report is 56 commits behind head on main.

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[mwear]

LGTM. @bogdandrutu, you had a lot of feedback on this PR. Have your changes been addressed?

[bogdandrutu]

LGTM. @bogdandrutu, you had a lot of feedback on this PR.

Having a lot of feedback is it bad or good? Or why did you mentioned this?

Have your changes been addressed?

Not yet, some of the answers to my comments I am unable to understand (most likely because of my IQ level, or other factors). I am still in the understanding mode, and I cannot approve something I don't understand the complexity.

[jmacd]

@evan-bradley What do you think? This is a simple PR to add tracing to a critical component, and I have tried to explain that this is only one of the steps involved in fixing #11308.

[jmacd]

Not yet, some of the answers to my comments I am unable to understand

@bogdandrutu please clarify. I can't guess at which parts of this PR and the overall #11308 are causing trouble.

[jmacd]

Disappointed.