Hey I'm Richard, I was the original developer working on Kedro-Viz back in the day. When I built the project, I used a package called Dagre to generate the graph layout, but it had an issue with not allowing manual ranking for nodes. There was a PR that added this feature, but the maintainer had seemingly abandoned the project, so I forked the module from the PR. Eventually we moved on to our own graph layout algorithm that the very talented Liam Brummit wrote for us. Anyway I just received an email notification that after all these years, Dagre has a new maintainer who has finally gone back and merged that PR! So even though it's been 4 years since I left the Kedro team, I can finally have closure 😌

it was almost the 6 year birthday of that PR… open source works in mysterious ways :) thanks for chiming in @Richard Westenra !

Richard!! so good to see you here 😄 And glad to hear you got closure after all these years

Awwww miss you Richard!!!!

So nice to hear from you @Richard Westenra 🙌 Hope you are all well!

I miss you guys too! ❤️ Living in NZ is great, I can see snow on the mountains out my office window and I can see two mountains I climbed and skied last weekend 😌 but I really miss working on the Kedro team - also working 100% remote probably hasn't been good for me longer-term 😅 Hope you're all doing well! I had a look at the contributions on Kedro-Viz and saw that @Rashida Kanchwala has taken over from me as top contributor, that makes me happy :)