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The initial motivation for this document was to introduce the "fast path" as a way to hopefully streamline our handling of simple, uncontroversial bug reports so that we can reserve our synchronous discussion time for more complicated or ambiguous situations. However, I also took the opportunity to describe the bug process more broadly, including a description of how the maintainers currently interact with bug reports outside of the proposed new "fast path", in case that's helpful to reporters who want to know what to expect or to understand where they are in the process. Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
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Contributing to OpenTofu
Welcome and thank you for wanting to contribute!
Get started
- Have a question? Post it in GitHub Discussions ➡️ or on the OpenTofu Slack ➡️!
- Found a bug? Open a bug report!
- Have a feature idea? Submit it here ➡️
- Want to help define a complex feature or bug fix? Write an RFC here ➡️
- Want to add a feature, fix bug, refactor something, or add CI tooling?
- Check if there is an open issue with the
acceptedandhelp wantedlabels, - Comment on the issue that you want to work on it,
- Wait for a maintainer to assign it to you,
- Then submit your code here ➡️
- Check if there is an open issue with the
- Recurring Events
- Community Meetings on Wednesdays at 12:30 UTC at this link: https://meet.google.com/xfm-cgms-has (📅 calendar link)
- Technical Steering Committee Meetings every other Tuesday at 4pm UTC at this link: https://meet.google.com/cry-houa-qbk (📅 calendar link)
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⚠️ Important: Please avoid working on features or refactor without an accepted and help-wanted issue. OpenTofu is a large and complex project and every change needs careful consideration. We cannot merge pull requests without first having a discussion about them, no matter how trivial the issue may seem.
Check out our Contributing FAQ and Development Guide for more detailed information.
Getting Involved
OpenTofu has a variety of roles that need dedicated and skilled people to fill. How we operate is defined in our Charter and implemented by the TSC in our Governance.
Contributors
Anyone can contribute to OpenTofu by submitting an issue, helping track down a bug, opening a PR, or help in any way to advance the OpenTofu project.
Maintainers
Maintainers are anyone who is a "Committer" (as defined in the Charter) to one or more repositories.
The list of current maintainers and their responsibilities can be found in MAINTAINERS.md.
TSC Members
The current TSC members are:
- Arel Rabinowitz (@RLRabinowitz) - env0
- Christian Mesh (@cam72cam) - Spacelift
- Igor Savchenko (@DiscyDel) - Scalr Inc.
- James Humphries (@Yantrio) - Spacelift
- Roger Simms (@allofthesepeople) - Harness Inc.
- Yousif Akbar (@yhakbar) - Gruntwork, Inc.
Agendas and meeting notes can be found in the opentofu/org/TSC folder. Anyone may open a PR to add a new agenda item for the next TSC meeting. More information on the TSC structure can be found in our Governance