@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The Terraform team is not merging PRs for new state storage backends at the curr
Please see the [CODEOWNERS](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/CODEOWNERS) file for the status of a given backend. Community members with an interest in a particular standard backend are welcome to help maintain it.
Currently, merging state storage backends places a significant burden on the Terraform team. The team must setup an environment and cloud service provider account, or a new database/storage/key-value service, in order to build and test remote state storage backends. The time and complexity of doing so prevents us from moving Terraform forward in other ways.
Currently, merging state storage backends places a significant burden on the Terraform team. The team must setup an environment and cloud service provider account, or a new database/storage/key-value service, in order to build and test remote state storage backends. The time and complexity of doing so prevents us from moving Terraform forward in other ways.
We are working to remove ourselves from the critical path of state storage backends by moving them towards a plugin model. In the meantime, we won't be accepting new remote state backends into Terraform.