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    nutritious-bird-77396

    1 year ago
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    @microscopic-receptionist-23548 Could you help me understand the reasoning behind splitting GMA into a separate repo?
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    mammoth-bear-12532

    1 year ago
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    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.
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    e.g. LinkedIn has its own models internally and its own gms implementations, but uses gma library for storing and retrieving metadata
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    Is there a specific problem you see with the split repo approach?
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    microscopic-receptionist-23548

    1 year ago
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    It 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

    1 year ago
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    These 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

    1 year ago
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    ^^ 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

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    Two 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

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    there's always a tradeoff: more PRs means higher friction, means a productivity hit
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