chore: fix hoisted karma issue

.github/workflows/w3c-integration-test.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
           npm ci
 
       - name: Generate version.ts files
-        run: lerna run version
+        run: npm run version:update
 
       - name: Build 🔧
         run: npm run compile

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ For experimental package changes, see the [experimental CHANGELOG](experimental/
 ### :house: (Internal)
 
 * chore: track package-lock.json [#4238](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/4238) @legendecas
+  * Switched to npm workspaces to bootstrap dependencies.
 
 ## 1.17.1
 

maintenance/npm_workspaces.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Maintaining npm workspaces dependencies
+
+This documents the caveats on maintaining npm workspaces dependencies.
+
+## Karma
+
+Packages with executables are hoisted in workspaces. In this case, `karma` and
+its plugins are not installed in the same `node_modules` folder, which leads to
+a condition that `karma` can not find the plugins necessary to run the tests.
+
+To alleviate this, karma and its plugins are listed as root dependencies as
+well.
+
+Relevant issue: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/287