Hashicorp explained the reason for the recent Additions in the repository of an open configuration control platform terraform Notes on the temporary suspension of review and reception Pull queries sent by community representatives. Note was perceived some participants as a crisis in the open development model TERRAFORM.
Terraform developers hurried to reassure the community and stated that the added note did not understand and it was added only to explain to reduce activity on the analysis of the community due to the lack of personnel. It is noted that after the first stable release published in the summer of the first stable release Terraform 1.0 is observed explosive growth in the popularity of the platform to which Hashicorp was not ready.
Due to the increase in the popularity of the platform and increasing the number of commercial customers in the company, there is a big lack of personnel and the existing personnel has been redistributed to solve primary tasks and providing product support. The suspension of the reception of changes from the community is called a forced time measure – the growth of popularity, led to an increase in the number of incoming changes from the community, which the available Hashicorp staff does not have time to review. Processing changes for other products HASHICORP, as well as for providers with the implementation of additional types of resources for Terraform, continued without changes.
Currently, the process of setting new engineers and frames with frames is planned to be solved in a few weeks, after which it will be adjusted and acceptance of Pull queries from the community. Currently, in the list vacancies hashicorp more than hundreds of unclosed engineering positions.