Announcing a friendly fork of dbt-docs

[matthieucan]

Hi,
My colleagues and I would like to announce and discuss our project to fork dbt-docs.
Our main reason for doing so is to be able to have a sort of staging environment, where we can build and distribute the generated index.html, which would contain features we intend to bring to dbt-docs.

Naturally, as a friendly fork, we aim to:

• Open PRs upstream (this repo) for every change we bring,
• Not diverge from upstream, except for changes that are rejected, which we'd like to maintain as a series of patches in the fork.

An example of a feature we'd like to have is #375. Unfortunately it didn't get a lot of traction.

What is your opinion on this approach? Do you think it's a great way for us to more efficiently work together on dbt-docs?

Thank you, and looking forward to working together on this topic to bring great features to dbt-docs!

[ismailsimsek]

@matthieucan check out opendbt docs. its easier to enhance. And its more polished and user friendly UI, to be used by business users.

see documentation and the demo

along the column dependencies you can also see the source transformations that produces the column.