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2134951079,I_kwDOAMm_X85_QMSn,8747,Datatree design discussions - weekly meeting,35968931,open,0,,,10,2024-02-14T18:39:16Z,2024-04-18T22:09:16Z,,MEMBER,,,,"### What is your issue?

In the [bi-weekly dev meeting](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4001) today we agreed that deliberate higher-level discussions of datatree's design would be useful. (i.e. we're not worried about our ability to write high-quality code, so let's focus review time more explicitly on the high-level design questions.)

This could take the form of me just talking through what I did in a certain part of the code and why, or a targeted discussion on specific design questions that I was never quite sure about. Some examples of the latter, as food for thought:
- [ ] Inheritance of dimension coordinates from parent nodes? https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/297
- [x] ~~Symbolic links? https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/5~~ (we decided this was overkill)
- [ ] Is `dt.ds` ugly? See also the difference between `dt.ds` and `dt.to_dataset()` https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/303#issuecomment-1917798769
- [ ] Which methods should map over the subtree and which shouldn't? (can't find the issue for this one)
- [ ] Ignore missing dims when mapping over subtree? https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/67
- [ ] API for sub-tree selection https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/254
- [ ] API for merging leaves https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/192
- [ ] Dict-like interface ambiguities https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/240
- [ ] The tree broadcasting rabbit hole https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/199
- [ ] Relationship between datatree and catalogs https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree/issues/134
- [ ] Should `xr.concat`/`xr.merge` accept `DataTree` objects? (and map over them by default?) Would help with https://github.com/TomNicholas/VirtualiZarr/issues/84#issuecomment-2065410549

There was also this [design doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19jVW5lL2jwhS0dgj9XqPBrcvIa13cpWrnDsnVLqZkfc/edit?usp=sharing) I wrote at one point

@flamingbear are you free at 11:30am EST on Tuesday each week? @shoyer, @keewis and I are all free then. Others also welcome (e.g. @owenlittlejohns , @eni-awowale, @etienneschalk), but not required :)","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/8747/reactions"", ""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 1, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,,13221727,issue