- Visit GTFS.org the official GTFS documentation website.
- Join Slack and introduce yourself to the community.
- Subscribe to the GTFS Digest for monthly updates about all things GTFS.
- Join GTFS Changes and GTFS Realtime Google Groups to stay informed on development.
The GTFS Specification is not set in stone. Instead, it is an open specification developed and maintained by the community of transit agencies, developers, and other stakeholders who use GTFS. It is expected that this community of producers and consumers of GTFS data will have proposals for extending the spec to enable new capabilities.
To formalize this process, we've established the GTFS Governance framework, which includes the Specification Amendment Process.
Before we can use your code, you must sign the Google Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which you can do online.
The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you @@ -15,10 +32,6 @@ us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid frustration later on.
Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the one above, the