Hi I would like to work on this!

Go ahead and good luck then @kaitlyncliu!

Hi, just wanted to update that I am working with @92ammarraza on this issue for a class project so he is making the PR!

@mturoci is this still up for grabs?

Hi, I submitted a PR for this change request. Let me know how it looks and if you would like any changes. Thanks!

What is the reasoning process behind disallowing this?
Usually, one would check in the python app code and at startup if the required folder exists and if not it might be created. Especially with mounted devices, this now requires code outside of the app and even prior to startup.

In other words, if this is solely there for dev experience and has no security reasons, I'd suggest to lower it to a warning. In its current state, this is a breaking change for existing pipelines. @mturoci

The original goal was to improve DX since specifying folders is a bit inconvenient (has to be relative to waved binary rather than main app file). This way, wrong path would be reported right away.

However, I didn't consider the usecase you mentioned above, which is totally valid, so lowering to warn makes sense.

Changed in 6ebfbf9.