I'll work on creating a diagram.

@mx-psi I prepared a high level diagram with labels at different stages. I know I'm missing some labels but this gives us a good starting point. Please let me know how you feel about it?

Thanks @VihasMakwana, nice. One suggestion:

1. "Able to reproduce?" this can be a costly operation for the triagers, the codeowners should be in much better position to actually try the repro. My suggestion would be to say something like "Has good repro steps and/or description?" with the edge below being labeled "No/need more details"

That makes sense to me. Thanks for taking a look!

@VihasMakwana This makes sense to me, thanks for working on it! I think I would probably leave out the 'release blocker' and the 'New component' parts of the diagram (they feel like issue types more than states that any issue can potentially be at).

Could you file a PR to add this to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/issue-triaging.md? So that the diagram is easy to edit, could you use Mermaid so that we can edit the diagram over time?

@mx-psi once you're back from holidays, please take a look at #36975