Hi team! Was wondering what these directories are intended for, if anything? They appear when running

meltano init

but the documentation doesn't mention them.

There is no implicit use for those things. Just a way to organize yourself. You could delete them and not lose anything. That being said, I am kind of keen on how I organized my project. Check it out. I separate yamls for each extractor/loader/thing and use meltanos include paths in a meltano yml at project root

Thanks, that's actually pretty nice! You should contribute that pattern to the docs as an example 🙂

Agreed - users should feel free to make the directory their own. And the

include_paths

pattern is something @pat_nadolny has implemented also in our Meltano

squared

project. Would definitely welcome a PR to add example directory patterns like this.

🤯 🤯 🤯

@alexander_butler yeah I separated the Squared configs that way too! Its way cleaner than 1 giant file. I've been half thinking about moving mine around a bit still because having environments in their own directory with extractors/loader/utilities/etc sitting together is a little unintuitive for me but still havent figure out if theres a better way

The

include_paths

is awesome. My

meltano.yml

files are getting quite a bit large now after a few months working with meltano. And I was meaning to look for an

include

style option in the docs, but was too lazy to search for it. 😂 Thanks for sharing here!

@aaronsteers WHAT?!?!?!?! I never knew!!!!