temporalio / temporalio/temporal
Add ability to transfer child workflows to new parent run when parent calls continue as new
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Description
Request: Add ability to transfer child workflows to new parent run when parent calls continue as new.
Currently the child workflow is not transferred and follows the parentClosePolicy.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the parent workflow's continue-as-new handling and how child workflows currently follow the parentClosePolicy. Done means a child workflow can be transferred to the new parent run instead of remaining with the old run, with behavior covered for the requested case.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100