tracking: Bringing charts and mdims closer together in etl and grapher

[pabloarosado]

Written by Claude Fable 5 — @pabloarosado at the wheel.

Summary

This issue will track progress on the roadmap to bring charts and MDIMs closer together in both etl and grapher.

For more context, see this Notion page.

Relevant PRs

Old

• 🎉 Make graphs a first-class citizen in ETL #5530
• 🎉 Charts as first-class ETL citizens via simple mdims #5969

Phase 1

• 🎉 ETL-authored chart configs owid-grapher#6553 (superseded by 🎉 Allow addressing charts by their config UUID in the admin API owid-grapher#6825 and 🎉 ETL-authored chart configs, addressed by chart config UUID owid-grapher#6826)
• 🎉 Charts as first-class citizens in ETL: layered approach with grapher #6174 (superseded by 🎉 Charts as first-class citizens in ETL, addressed by chart config UUID #6511)
• 🎉 Allow addressing charts by their config UUID in the admin API owid-grapher#6825
• 🎉 ETL-authored chart configs, addressed by chart config UUID owid-grapher#6826
• 🎉 Charts as first-class citizens in ETL, addressed by chart config UUID #6511

Chart-configs refactor (groundwork)

• 🐛🤖 (chart-configs) always reach chart configs through their owner table owid-grapher#6971
• 🔨🤖 (chart-configs) replace chart_configs.patch + full with a single config column owid-grapher#6979
• 🔨🤖 (chart-configs) drop the admin-authored indicator chart config layer owid-grapher#6980
• 🔨🤖 (chart-configs) derive the mdim view config layer instead of storing it owid-grapher#6988
• 🔨🤖 (chart-configs) delete the orphaned chart_configs rows owid-grapher#6987
• 🔨🤖 (chart-configs) prefer "indicator" over "variable" in code owid-grapher#7002
• 🐛🤖 keep entity selection when saving a narrative chart owid-grapher#7004

Related

• Let a multi-dim view define its own default entity selection owid-grapher#6922