Enhancements to the Dev Experience

[abigailpham]

Enhancements to the Dev Experience

[austinvalle]

Hi there @abigailpham 👋🏻, thanks for submitting an issue first!

Currently, this scaffolding provider is meant to be a baseline for Terraform provider development across the entire ecosystem. There are already a couple pieces of this repo that lean into specific workflows, such as our GitHub actions based release process, which was deemed a reasonable addition since the repo itself is housed in GitHub and the most likely use-case would be cloning it as a template repository.

That being said, I think we'd prefer to hold off on introducing more specific developer workflows to this scaffolding repo.

There has been some internal chatter about having more prescriptive provider development content for use-cases such as private provider development, so perhaps in the future we might maintain a more "curated" provider scaffold template and we can revisit this issue.

I'm going to leave this issue open to collect any other ideas the community has for this.