Hi metaflow team i tried adding local decorator support in the following PR. I updated it after initial discussion, please review https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/pull/1824 thanks

@square-wire-39606 — could you provide feedback here. I think we discussed a bit already.

@numerous-holiday-13767 can you help me with your use case for

@local

here?

hi @square-wire-39606..i was learning metaflow and wanted to contribute to the project....so i went through good first issues....and found this issue interesting which i have mentioned in the PR... the use case defined in that PR which seemed interesting to me was following

A possible use-case for this would be to annotate a GPU-heavy step that you want to run locally to save on AWS costs but take advantage of fast S3 access for other steps (from the EC2 machines batch uses).

so i tried implementing the solution. Not sure if my approach is right or not.

got it. before we merge this PR, we would need to align on the best UX we can offer. it is likely that offering a plain @local decorator might not be the best approach here and may likely lead to more confusion for the users. if you are interested in contributing, i would recommend starting out with PRs that don't introduce (or tweak) the current UX for quick progress - like this one or this one