[Feature] Athena dbt-external-tables impl as independent package

[brabster]

Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature

Describe the feature

We've been waiting for literally years to get an Athena implementation of dbt-external-tables merged. This working repo demonstrates an independent implementation for athena, using dbt-external-tables as an interface and generic impl

https://github.com/brabster/dbt-athena-external-tables

Describe alternatives you've considered

Merge into dbt-external-tables. Not happened for a long time, if it did happen and any changes needed to be made, it could be problematic getting a response. This solution decouples the Athena implementation without any copy-paste maintenance.

2nd PR to dbt-external-tables, raised May 2023 dbt-labs/dbt-external-tables#203. (All due credit to original PR dbt-labs/dbt-external-tables#133 raised Feb 2022)

Who will this benefit?

All Athena users wishing to use external tables. dbt-athena-community maintainers who will need to maintain this functionality and would not choose to be tightly coupled to the dbt-external-tables maintainers

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

I have contributed a working solution. I am not interested in being a maintainer.

Anything else?

No response

[nicor88]

Happy to be a maintainer of dbt-external-tables for athena for the time being. @jessedobbelaere seems fine with it too. @Jrmyy @svdimchenko wdyt?

[brabster]

I can't transfer, no access. Keen to move asap to avoid breaking/confusing people when it does happen.

Would one of you like to just create a new repo and init with the contents of this instead? I can put a banner on this deprecating and pointing over to the official one?

[nicor88]

@brabster to transfer ownership we need to grant you permissions, see here. If you don't mind I will reach out in dbt slack to coordinate this :)

[Jrmyy]

Hello,

I don't mind supporting also this repository. We did it for athena-utils, it makes sense :)

[nicor88]

Thanks @Jrmyy , we can follow up with @brabster to transfer ownership. 3 out of 5 maintainers are in favor.