GitHub user dave-csc added a comment to the discussion: 2.17 Roadmap and goals
Putting my two cents, here, since my [duplicate environment proposal](https://github.com/apache/hop/issues/5085) has been/is being already incorporated in Hop ❤️ A biggest improvement would be to complete the project inheritation feature: currently only the metadata part is supported (i.e. you can use inherited metadata such as databases or REST endpoints) and in a local environment only. You can't share workflows/pipelines in common via an "extended" `${PROJECT_HOME}` folder, nor you can import the inherited metadata in a Docker environment. This limitation doesn't allow me to use Hop's Git features and the official Docker container: in Hop you are bound to a Git repository for a single project, whereas with an external tool you can version the entire Hop workspace and their projects/environments relations (those are well detailed in the `hop-config.json` file and/or other configuration files). Regarding Docker, the level of complexity to start a container and preserve the project dependencies with some workarounds, or even just any file is produced by the workflows, is far too high to be worth its use. I felt more confident to simply replicate my local environment on a server, and start the workflows via `crontab` and the `hop-run.sh` executable... GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/hop/discussions/5980#discussioncomment-14934010 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
