Michael Schuster

I can give you a pretty simple reason, ZenML does not have a dependency on pillow last time I checked. Why should we force every user to install Pillow just...

> > I can give you a pretty simple reason, ZenML does not have a dependency on pillow last time I checked. Why should we force every user to install...

I haven't taken a look at the entire PR, but just quickly glanced over the comments and saw the discussion about an empty list as a default argument to a...

@SangamSwadiK As far as I can understand from code, we'll want an if condition that checks if the `ignore_columns` are emtpy/None anyway right? In that case I'd personally go with...

Ah sorry my bad, I didn't read the previous comments. I now see that this is part of a ZenML step, which unfortunately doesn't allow `Optional` inputs which explains the...

Hi @VictorW96, I've managed to get in [some fixes for the GCP artifact store](https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/730) into our `0.10.0` [release](https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.10.0) (out now!) which address the first exception raised in your stack trace:...

I'm looking into this now @VictorW96, can you maybe paste the entire stack trace for a little more context?

Fixed by #998

Hi @strangemonad, thanks for the issue. Some of our existing components (e.g. the [`AzureArtifactStore`](https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/blob/main/src/zenml/integrations/azure/artifact_stores/azure_artifact_store.py#L58-L61)) already use an [authentication mixin](https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/blob/main/src/zenml/stack/authentication_mixin.py). This mixin: - adds an `authentication_secret` attribute to the component which...

@strangemonad #817 implements a generic way of referencing secrets in configurations of stack components as well as many other details discussed here. It currently does not include any automated prompting...