[FEATURE] - Deprecate collect_freshness macro in v0.5.0 release #146
Description
The collect_freshness is a macro used to ensure that the source freshness test doesn't fail for cases when a Fivetran dbt package has disabled a source. Previously, if a source was disabled in a package, the freshness test would still fail. This macro ensured that it would not fail.
However, in the recent versions of dbt-core there is now a native feature (see example here) which allows sources to be enabled/disabled based on a tag. Therefore, this macro will no longer be necessary once we move to the v0.5.0 release of fivetran_utils and only support dbt-core versions of v1.8.0 or greater.
Once we move to v0.5.0 of Fivetran Utils and update all Fivetran dbt packages to support this version, we will fully remove the collect_freshness macro from the fivetran_utils dbt package.