In bazel I can tag targets as

manual

and they never run unless explicitly invoked directly.. or indirectly through a dependee. Can I do something similar in pants? In particular, I have a sphinx-build target that I never want to run in export-codegen.

You mean when you run

pants ::

you want it not to glob over those targets?

Specifically if I run

pants export-codegen ::

I'd like to skip some by default.. as the adhoc tool was compiling some large sphinx-apidocs|build pex binaries

I think that would be https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/15012

Yep, seems like it. @purple-plastic-57801 want to take a crack at it? I don't think it would be terribly hard.

Yeah I ask for help enough. I should give back ❤️

I think the toughest part for that issue is coming up with the design for how it should work.

Yep, probably best to discuss that on the issue, agree on a design, and then we can figure out the implementation

Are there any reoccuring community meetings to talk about such things?

There is a monthly developer meeting (on zoom) that you're welcome to join! Second Monday of the month, at 9 AM Pacific time. So the next one will be a week from tomorrow.

we've been saying to try a slack huddle instead of the google meet though... (we've not been on zoom at all, have we?)

The google calendar event is still valid...