Provider Support Update

[kfcampbell]

👋 Hi! My name is Keegan and I go by @kfcampbell on GitHub. I've worked on the GitHub Terraform provider for around a year and a half now. Since its inception, the provider has seen a lot of use and many contributors: 210 at last count. It's been owned officially by Hashicorp, then transitioned to GitHub unofficially (i.e. maintaining this project has not been a part of anybody's day job).

Throughout its lifespan, the community has been engaged, vocal, and supportive of the project. I'd like to thank everybody who has contributed on issues and pull requests: without you none of this would be viable.

As of October-ish this year, the provider has transitioned to GitHub's SDK team and we will start to support the provider as we currently do Octokit. That means my excellent colleague @nickfloyd may start to contribute to this repo, and that issue/PR triage should be a bit more timely in the future.

It also means you may see a little bit of change around the repo: we'll be working on changing things like labels, repo metadata, docs, etc. to be more in line with how things are run over in the Octokit organization. We also will probably add a stalebot and pare down some of the currently open issues and PRs. If something you care about gets closed, please reopen it! Hopefully an outcome of this process will be additional dialogue with the community about the needs of the provider.

We also have big visions for the future of the provider. Stay tuned for more updates in the future, and please don't hesitate to share about your vision for it in our newly-opened discussions.

We are thankful for the amount of support and love the provider has received in the form of community contributions, and we're excited to support the project more in the future!