docs/CONTRIBUTING: New Region

[bflad]

From PR review of #3142

[kwerey]

Hey, a minor other bit of feedback on these guidelines as a newbie: the example for running acceptance tests looks like it comes from a time when the provider lived in the main terraform repo:

$ make testacc TEST=./builtin/providers/azurerm TESTARGS='-run=TestAccAzureRMPublicIpStatic_update'
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements..

It's no big deal to find an aws alternative, but updating the example to something that'll work out the box with the AWS provider would lower the barrier to entry a touch by saving folks from having to break the command apart and parse how the directory structure's changed!

[bflad]

That is excellent feedback! I will submit a PR to get the documentation updated. Thank you!

[radeksimko]

I hope this list won't grow much over time 😅

What I usually do is grep eu-west-3 or something like that and find all the places where I need to add new region.

Generally speaking - and that is a blocker - I'd rather not see a region in the map at all rather than empty string and have Terraform error out in such case.

[radeksimko]

👍 Thanks.

[bflad]

@radeksimko you're absolutely right 👍 we should have proper handling for missing map entries (friendly error not crash). I think we identified at least one place where this definitely is an issue and I'll submit an issue for it and others if necessary. I have updated the documentation here say if available rather than adding an empty mapping entry.

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