Support Forward Only #12
Description
General use case: I am making a change to a model and have that change take effect starting at a specific date or starting at the date that I merged my model into main. This should apply to the model I am directly changing and then also downstream models affected if I want it to. I want to be able to validate this change prior to going to prod and leverage my existing CI/CD flow. Once merged I expect that this change to be properly rebased into other environments.
What we identified as new features we need to support his:
- Need: Breaking/Non-Breaking restatement (meaning restate children or don’t restate children)
- Need: A way to label a breaking/non-breaking as “temporary” that needs to be converted to forward only once going to prod
- Question: How does this work outside of CI/CD?
- Need: A way to ensure that all forward only changes invalidate the target snapshot version
- Needed to ensure data accuracy: A way to block parallel restatements on a single version of a snapshot
- Want: Notify owners of environments that they have been invalidated once the merge to main happens