I made a comparison of package files before <> after and added a few
corrections. Also I've added an extra security layer for CI building of
airflow packages - it runs inside a fully isolated Docker container.

Would be great to get another quick look /review before I merge it :)

J,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 1:36 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> I got the PR green: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36537 - I got
> a really comprehensive review and a number of iterations with Jens (and
> approval! yay!!) and a number of comments from TP.
>
> I would love to have some feedback from others before merging, I still
> want to (I will do it tomorrow) go through the packages prepared with hatch
> and make sure we have not lost (or added) too much from the packages and
> add appropriate inclusions/exclusions  - but other than that, I think it
> could be merged even today.
>
> I'd love some more comments - especially from those who struggled with
> local venv/editable installation and dependency management/adding provider
> dependencies recently - as the way it is done now should be WAY simpler and
> better.
>
> Just to repeat what we get with that one:
>
> 1. cutting-edge support for packaging Python standards (see previous mail
> in the thread) - with complete configuration for project in single
> pyproject.toml file. Allows to use any modern build frontend for
> development (hatch, pip. poetry, pipenv etc.)
> 2. nicer integration with IDEs (Pycharm/VScode etc.) with installing
> dependency management
> 3. nicely and logically organized dependencies - including devel
> dependencies + extras per provider, nicely managed from provider.yaml
> 4. seamlessly working `pip install --editable .` (it was hacked before,
> and not working in recent `pip` versions - now it will `**just work**)
> 5. a way to easily install provider devel dependencies for testing in
> local venv (`pip install -e ".[amazon,google]"`)
> 6. hatch as recommended (but not mandatory) frontend that supports
> out-of-the-box:
>    a) installing python interpreters (`hatch python install all`)
>    b) creating local venvs (`hatch env create`, `hatch env shell`, `hatch
> -e airflow-311 create` and so on)
>    c) building packages for release (`hatch build -c custom -c wheel -c
> sdist`)
>    d) later we will use more things that hatch gives us (reproducible
> builds, publishing to PyPI, possibly local testing and code formatting,
> better monorepo organization in the future).
> 7. Updated documentation for all the above.
>
> Note: It does not replace Breeze for reproducing and optimizing our CI
> build (Breeze has way more optimizations and customisations needed for
> Airflow). However it makes the LOCAL_VIRTUALENV option of running tests and
> developing airflow much easier to manage and get it under control.
>
> Just as a teaser - here is the output of `hash env show`:
>
>
> ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃ Name        ┃ Type    ┃ Features ┃ Description
>                         ┃
>
> ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
> │ default     │ virtual │ devel    │ Default environment with Python 3.8
> for maximum compatibility │
>
> ├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ airflow-38  │ virtual │          │ Environment with Python 3.8. No devel
> installed.              │
>
> ├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ airflow-39  │ virtual │          │ Environment with Python 3.9. No devel
> installed.              │
>
> ├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ airflow-310 │ virtual │          │ Environment with Python 3.10. No
> devel installed.             │
>
> ├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ airflow-311 │ virtual │          │ Environment with Python 3.11. No
> devel installed              │
>
> └─────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
> J.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 11:55 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ah .. .And comparing to the original proposal I simplified it a LOT.
>> generally speaking for both contributor and user the way how you
>> install Airflow for installation and contribution is "standard" and
>> basically just "fixes" what has been broken - i.e. you just install it
>> as expected:
>>
>> * `pip install apache-airflow[google]`  or `pip install .[google]`
>> will install airflow + google provider (user story)
>> * `pip install -e .[google]` will install airflow + all google
>> provider dependencies in editable mode - ready to run tests
>>
>> Plus Airflow follows all the PEP-standards so that it is compatible
>> with all the modern tooling for Python packaging. Here is the list of
>> PEP's that it makes airflow generally compatible with:
>>
>> * `PEP-440 Version Identification and Dependency Specification
>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/>`__
>> * `PEP-517 A build-system independent format for source trees
>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/>`__
>> * `PEP-518 Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python
>> Projects <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/>`__
>> * `PEP-561 Distributing and Packaging Type Information
>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0561/>`__
>> * `PEP-621 Storing project metadata in pyproject.toml
>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0621/>`__
>> * `PEP-685 Comparison of extra names for optional distribution
>> dependencies <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/>`__
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 11:27 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I iterated quite a bit on the PR and I think it's ready for an even
>> > more serious review:  https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36537 . I
>> > solved all of the TODOs and teething problems and while it likely
>> > still has some tests to fix, all the build and packaging pieces, local
>> > installation and even developer/contributor documentation should be
>> > already in the state that is ready for serious scrutiny. Thanks to
>> > Jens and TP for the reviews so far - I addressed all of the comments
>> > already - and there are just 2 conversations left remaining.
>> >
>> > See the comment for status summary:
>> > https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36537#issuecomment-1880193452
>> >
>> > BTW. I found it really useful to follow the "unresolved conversation"
>> > routine - it's really nice to see such things as a summary (see
>> > attachment) and be able to see that there are still 2 conversations to
>> > resolve.
>> > That's the in-progress experiment with conversations which I
>> > personally like a lot so far. It already saved me from merging a PR
>> > that still had things to resolve.
>> >
>> > J.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I slept over it a few nights and got away of it and I have an idea to
>> > > simplify it quite a bit - i.e. cut the number of extras by half and
>> > > virtually make 0 impact on current editable installation so you might
>> > > wnnt to hold on a bit with that (unless you want to see it changing :)
>> > >  ) .. The whole concept won't change, I just realized that I do not
>> > > need to add new `editable_` extras to achieve the same effect.
>> > >
>> > > I will also attempt to split it a bit to make it easier to review.
>> > >
>> > > Hold tight :) - but also feel free to look and comment even now :)
>> > >
>> > > And yes. Exciting. It kept me awake a night or two where I could not
>> > > get to sleep until I finally got it working :D
>> > >
>> > > J
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 6:52 PM Pierre Jeambrun <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > I personally think that this is a great idea. I have been following
>> the
>> > > > hatch project for a while and I am convinced it has a lot to offer
>> for
>> > > > airflow. The two big pros for me are its ease of use (backend and
>> front
>> > > > end) as well as the security covered aspects (reproducible builds
>> to name
>> > > > one).
>> > > >
>> > > > I will take a look at the PR later this week, but it definitely
>> sounds
>> > > > exciting.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Tue 2 Jan 2024 at 20:26, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Hello everyone.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Tl;DR; I have a proposal to adopt Hatchling as a build backend
>> (and
>> > > > > recommend, but not require Hatch as frontend) for Airflow as our
>> way
>> > > > > of switching to PEP-standard compliant pyproject.toml way of
>> > > > > installing Airflow (including local venvs) and building the
>> Airflow
>> > > > > package.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I have a working implementation that needs polishing and taking a
>> few
>> > > > > less important decisions and rather simple TODOS). Here is draft
>> PR:
>> > > > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36537
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I've spent a better part of the Xmas/New Years break on
>> implementing
>> > > > > it - something that we've been discussing for - literally - years
>> -
>> > > > > and several people (including myself) made several attempts in the
>> > > > > past  - unsuccessfully- with standardising python packaging/ build
>> > > > > process for Airflow to use modern standard-driven tooling.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I think I succeeded. finally.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > In short, what it means:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > When this change is merged, Airflow will have a nice and slick and
>> > > > > modern, standard compliant contributor's experience - with
>> editable
>> > > > > installation that will **just work**, that will work with multiple
>> > > > > build front-ends and it will make it very easy to install and
>> manage
>> > > > > local virtualenv(s) to contribute to Airflow. The extras
>> structure and
>> > > > > airflow configuration will be in one place (pyproject.toml) and it
>> > > > > will be much easier to reason about our extras and dependencies.
>> As a
>> > > > > bonus point - with tools like Hatch, contributors will get the
>> > > > > canonical way of managing local virtualenvs for Airflow
>> development
>> > > > > and a very easy recommended way to manage both Python and Venvs
>> (but
>> > > > > without forcing a single frontend).
>> > > > >
>> > > > > From the user perspective Airflow packages will be more
>> standardised,
>> > > > > with just user extras defined. From maintainers and PMC members,
>> we
>> > > > > will get reproducible builds (similarly as we have now for
>> Providers)
>> > > > > - which means that it will be easier and more robust to verify
>> > > > > provenance of the packages (security!)
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Why can we do it now and we could not do it before ?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This is mostly thanks to Herculean efforts of Python Packaging
>> team
>> > > > > (hats off to TP being part of the team and leading a lot of
>> > > > > standardisation efforts there) - after a few years of relentless
>> > > > > introduction and implementation of many PEPs and releasing new
>> tooling
>> > > > > (particularly Hatch, but also Flit that we already use for
>> providers)
>> > > > > it seems finally Airflow can move away from a very complex,
>> completely
>> > > > > custom setup.py and setup tools being abused by us in ways that
>> > > > > authors and Packaging team did not originally anticipate.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > What problems does the change solve?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > My PR solves all the difficult requirements of our custom
>> solution,
>> > > > > but also (mostly thanks to standardisation efforts by the
>> packaging
>> > > > > team), it improves on a lot of problems we could not solve.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Happy to have a detailed discussion here, and more detailed in
>> the PR
>> > > > > (I added a lot more context and documentation-  showing how this
>> will
>> > > > > work when we merge it). but here is the list of things such a move
>> > > > > provides:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * We are using hatchling build backend, that follows appropriate
>> PEP
>> > > > > standards and makes it work with any "frontend" you choose to
>> install
>> > > > > and manage your local installation (You can use modern Hatch
>> which is
>> > > > > counterpart to hatchling - highly recommended, but also it will
>> work
>> > > > > with just pip, poetry, flit, and any other standard-compliant
>> tool in
>> > > > > the future. No habits of the contributors need to be changed, it
>> will
>> > > > > **just** work
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * our editable installation has been broken for some time (mostly
>> > > > > because we were abusing setuptools and setup.py A LOT). See
>> > > > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/30764 . This change
>> puts the
>> > > > > shine back on being able to make editable install of airflow work
>> as
>> > > > > expected and getting a first-class experience for contributors
>> with
>> > > > > local virtualenvs
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * all Airflow package configuration is now merged into a single
>> > > > > appropriate PEP-compliant pyproject.toml - no more setup.py,
>> > > > > setup.cfg, MANIFEST.in.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * the extras are refactored and organized into logical groups and
>> > > > > start to make sense. I introduced new "editable" extras to allow
>> you
>> > > > > to easily install provider dependencies locally and reorganized
>> devel
>> > > > > extras to make it easy to understand what you should install in
>> your
>> > > > > editable environment to run tests. More importantly those "devel"
>> > > > > extras - while present in pyproject.toml are stripped off (thanks
>> to
>> > > > > custom hooks) from the final package - so final package has just
>> > > > > things that are important to our users
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * we use pre-commit to automatically use provider.yaml
>> dependencies
>> > > > > and merge them into pyproject.toml - thanks to that provider.yaml
>> will
>> > > > > remain the single source of truth for providers. This provides a
>> > > > > single source of truth for provider configuration, while it also
>> > > > > allows one local installation to develop them all together" - and
>> in a
>> > > > > very seamless way.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * no more INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCES hack when you install
>> airflow
>> > > > > for local development. I figured a nice way to avoid installing
>> > > > > pre-installed providers, and to make it super-easy to install
>> > > > > dependencies of providers in editable installation (hint: `pip
>> install
>> > > > > -e .[editable_google]` . This thanks to custom build hooks the PEP
>> > > > > standardized.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * I also recommend Hatch as a Python/Venv management tool and
>> used it
>> > > > > for testing - it's a great tool for managing both - Python
>> > > > > installations and Virtualenv management. For many people -
>> providing
>> > > > > such a canonical way (while following the standards and not
>> forcing
>> > > > > Hatch) will be really great to simplify their local environment
>> > > > > installation.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > * Hatchling supports reproducible builds out-of-the-box, which is
>> > > > > great for security - and it will make our package generation much
>> > > > > safer and easier to verify (as we do with our providers now).
>> > > > >
>> > > > > There are many more details and thoughts (and also some future
>> > > > > possible developments) that I am aware of, but this mail is
>> already
>> > > > > too long. and we can discuss it in the thread/PR or future
>> threads.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Happy to take any questions, critique, proposals and feedback - I
>> got
>> > > > > quite deep into how modern package building works so I likely made
>> > > > > some mistakes / bad assumptions or things can be improved or
>> maybe we
>> > > > > can take other directions.  It will take some time to merge and
>> > > > > discuss details, and if this one gets approved it's likely going
>> to be
>> > > > > targeted for Airflow 2.9.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > J.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
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