# Opportunity

> An issue in the roadmap repository that describes a problem worth solving, why it matters, and the solution foreseen for it.

Source: https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/opportunity/

- In code: `OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap`
- Also: opportunities, roadmap opportunity, roadmap opportunities, roadmap item

An opportunity starts from a problem: who has it, why it matters, and which feature requests or other community signals point to it. As it gets shaped, it gains a scope, a foreseen solution, open questions, and an appetite: a rough idea of how much time it is worth. Once work starts, one or more [epics](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/epic/) hang below it, often one for each phase.

Only foundation staff and authorized contributors create opportunities, but anyone can comment on them. See [from idea to release](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/roadmap/how-it-works/).

## Related terms

- [Roadmap](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/roadmap/): The problems the Open Home Foundation wants to solve next in Home Assistant and its other projects, tracked as opportunities in the OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap repository.
- [Epic](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/epic/): A larger body of work in the home-assistant/epics repository, made up of tasks that can span several repositories.
- [Architecture decision](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/architecture-decision/): A decision about how Home Assistant is built, discussed and recorded in the home-assistant/architecture repository.