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nutritious-bird-77396
04/02/2021, 4:55 PM@microscopic-receptionist-23548 Could you help me understand the reasoning behind splitting GMA into a separate repo?
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mammoth-bear-12532
04/02/2021, 7:24 PM
Hi @nutritious-bird-77396: this was mainly done to decouple the libraries that support storage of metadata from the "datahub application" that contains the opinionated models (what is a dataset) along with services and frontend that serve that model.
mammoth-bear-12532
04/02/2021, 7:26 PM
e.g. LinkedIn has its own models internally and its own gms implementations, but uses gma library for storing and retrieving metadata
mammoth-bear-12532
04/02/2021, 7:26 PM
Is there a specific problem you see with the split repo approach?
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microscopic-receptionist-23548
04/02/2021, 8:14 PMIt also helps us make breaking changes in GMA if needed; we don't immediately need to update dartahub in the same PR
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big-carpet-38439
04/02/2021, 8:31 PMThese two things are quite tightly coupled though at least in OSS world. Makes changes spanning multiple areas of DH more difficult with them split
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nutritious-bird-77396
04/02/2021, 9:02 PM^^ This was the concern for my question @mammoth-bear-12532
For any change that impacts GMA in datahub i have to make changes in 2 repos. Just wanted to know the background.
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microscopic-receptionist-23548
04/03/2021, 11:58 PMTwo PRs aren't a bad thing; it also helps to enforce smaller PRs, which are also not a bad thing 🙂
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big-carpet-38439
04/05/2021, 4:41 AMthere's always a tradeoff: more PRs means higher friction, means a productivity hit
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