Hilary James Oliver

> I feel like the discussion around || true should perhaps be in a separate Issue just for that topic? Perhaps Matt even remembers why it is there? See #6000

> On the topic of this MR itself, ... @ColemanTom - thanks for engaging on this (and other!) issues, much appreciated. However, I don't think we've reached a consensus on...

> Ok, we do have a pathway for handling schema changes, it's just something we haven't had to do yet. Can you copy-and-paste that procedure somewhere for future reference?

I think I missed this one when original posted, sorry. > ps. whilst here, I don't quite get the need for two mkdir here Yeah, same. > Does that make...

2. Simulating task outputs > Point (2) is covered by the skip-mode proposal which allows the outputs the task will generate to be defined in the config. I expect we...

I'm not suggesting a new run mode (misleading title changed!). Just that *in simulation mode* if there is defined sim-mode scripting, run it as a real job - so that...

Legit use cases for automated interventions? A task job determines that (for whatever reason) we no longer need to continue with a sub-graph that was triggered earlier, so it uses...

> What you're suggesting is more aligned to dummy mode, which hacks the task's script, etc at the config level, then submits a real job. Yes I agree with that,...

(Setting to 8.x milestone for now, but I'm hoping to get this done soon).

Probably rather simple to implement. I'll take a look ...