From b4fa71857669bd5f9c27bae4461a8322c6c4935b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Axel Kohlmeyer Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 07:25:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update the GitHub contributing guide to include the MatSci forum in addition to the mailing list. --- .github/CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md index 62e7186360..31b9becc0c 100644 --- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ __ ## I don't want to read this whole thing I just have a question! -> **Note:** Please do not file an issue to ask a general question about LAMMPS, its features, how to use specific commands, or how perform simulations or analysis in LAMMPS. Instead post your question to the ['lammps-users' mailing list](https://lammps.sandia.gov/mail.html). You do not need to be subscribed to post to the list (but a mailing list subscription avoids having your post delayed until it is approved by a mailing list moderator). Most posts to the mailing list receive a response within less than 24 hours. Before posting to the mailing list, please read the [mailing list guidelines](https://lammps.sandia.gov/guidelines.html). Following those guidelines will help greatly to get a helpful response. Always mention which LAMMPS version you are using. +> **Note:** Please do not file an issue to ask a general question about LAMMPS, its features, how to use specific commands, or how perform simulations or analysis in LAMMPS. Instead post your question to either the ['lammps-users' mailing list](https://lammps.sandia.gov/mail.html) or the [LAMMPS Material Science Discourse forum](https://matsci.org/lammps). You do not need to be subscribed to post to the list (but a mailing list subscription avoids having your post delayed until it is approved by a mailing list moderator). Most posts to the mailing list receive a response within less than 24 hours. Before posting to the mailing list, please read the [mailing list guidelines](https://lammps.sandia.gov/guidelines.html). Following those guidelines will help greatly to get a helpful response. Always mention which LAMMPS version you are using. The LAMMPS forum was recently created as part of a larger effort to build a materials science community and have discussions not just about using LAMMPS. Thus the forum may be also used for discussions that would be off-topic for the mailing list. Those will just have to be moved to a more general category. ## How Can I Contribute? -There are several ways how you can actively contribute to the LAMMPS project: you can discuss compiling and using LAMMPS, and solving LAMMPS related problems with other LAMMPS users on the lammps-users mailing list, you can report bugs or suggest enhancements by creating issues on GitHub (or posting them to the lammps-users mailing list), and you can contribute by submitting pull requests on GitHub or e-mail your code +There are several ways how you can actively contribute to the LAMMPS project: you can discuss compiling and using LAMMPS, and solving LAMMPS related problems with other LAMMPS users on the lammps-users mailing list, you can report bugs or suggest enhancements by creating issues on GitHub (or posting them to the lammps-users mailing list or posting in the LAMMPS Materials Science Discourse forum), and you can contribute by submitting pull requests on GitHub or e-mail your code to one of the [LAMMPS core developers](https://lammps.sandia.gov/authors.html). As you may see from the aforementioned developer page, the LAMMPS software package includes the efforts of a very large number of contributors beyond the principal authors and maintainers. ### Discussing How To Use LAMMPS @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Anyone can browse/search previous questions/answers in the archives. You do not If you post a message and you are a subscriber, your message will appear immediately. If you are not a subscriber, your message will be moderated, which typically takes one business day. Either way, when someone replies the reply will usually be sent to both, your personal email address and the mailing list. When replying to people, that responded to your post to the list, please always included the mailing list in your replies (i.e. use "Reply All" and **not** "Reply"). Responses will appear on the list in a few minutes, but it can take a few hours for postings and replies to show up in the SourceForge archive. Sending replies also to the mailing list is important, so that responses are archived and people with a similar issue can search for possible solutions in the mailing list archive. +The LAMMPS Materials Science Discourse forum was created recently to facilitate discussion not just about LAMMPS and as part of a larger effort towards building a materials science community. The forum contains a read-only sub-category with the continually updated mailing list archive, so you won't miss anything by joining only the forum and not the mailing list. + ### Reporting Bugs While developers writing code for LAMMPS are careful to test their code, LAMMPS is such a large and complex software, that it is impossible to test for all combinations of features under all normal and not so normal circumstances. Thus bugs do happen, and if you suspect, that you have encountered one, please try to document it and report it as an [Issue](https://github.com/lammps/lammps/issues) on the LAMMPS GitHub project web page. However, before reporting a bug, you need to check whether this is something that may have already been corrected. The [Latest Features and Bug Fixes in LAMMPS](https://lammps.sandia.gov/bug.html) web page lists all significant changes to LAMMPS over the years. It also tells you what the current latest development version of LAMMPS is, and you should test whether your issue still applies to that version.