andrewgodwin edited a comment on pull request #15142: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/15142#issuecomment-812628196
The idea for labels is merely to give the user a visual indication of what each edge means - this can be especially important, IMO, when using the branching operators or similar, on larger dags. It has no runtime effect. I don't think I'd even want to add anything with a runtime effect on edges; Airflow is designed around all the runtime info (priority, etc.) being at the Task level and I like that. The only things I could forsee adding is other informational data, such as a longer "description" field. The other option to achieve this is to take this, task groups, and any other informational-only parts of airflow and spin them off into a separate presentation layer somehow, and while I do quite like separating presentation and logic, I think that would be too unwieldy to actually be useful. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
