Hi all! Not sure where this question goes, deployment might be the best tangentially related area? I'm curious about the

metadata-ingest/src/datahub/metadata

subfolder where the metadata is built by translating the

.pdl

files into

avro

files. Is there any reason not to check those into our forked version of Datahub? Do those change often? Are there cross platform compilation issues? Conserving space? The reason behind this question is that internally we use Bazel to build our dependencies, and instead of trying to publish whls(we don't have an internal pypi to host these whls 😞) we can directly import the code and create a dependency through the git source code in other repos. We could publish the whls to S3 or as git packages, but before going down that route, just curious why we don't check them in.

In general you can manage your private fork as you wish 🙂 we don't check them in on the base repo due to quite a few reasons including the ones you mentioned, but it comes down to personal preference. There are drawbacks with both approaches.