[jakecodes]

Our goal is to meet our data team's need by answering our company's data questions.

A lot of the solutions out there are fantastic but aren't up to the tasks we are looking for. Why shouldn't the whole life cycle be in one tool, be open source, and be version controllable? That's what we are looking for in a tool.

[dantiberian]

There's no inherent reason that the whole life cycle can't be handled in a single tool. However, there have been tens of thousands of person-years spent on these tools, so people here are pointing out that it is a tall ask for any company to create one tool that integrates everything. This goes doubly so if it is only going to be a side project to GitLab itself.

[jakecodes]

Thanks. It's currently 4 devs full time jobs. I agree, a tall order. It's a lot of work. We won't reproduce every feature of every product tomorrow.

[sytse]

We'll only get there if Meltano get a lot community contributions. We think there is space for an open source end-to-end product that works out of the box. The contributions will tell if we're right.