lammps/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/maintenance_refactoring.md

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name: Maintenance or Refactoring
about: Submit a pull request that does code refactoring or other maintenance changes
title: "[MAINTENANCE] _Replace With Suitable Title_"
labels: maintenance
assignees: ''

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**Summary**

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**Related Issue(s)**

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**Author(s)**

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**Licensing**

By submitting this pull request, I agree, that my contribution will be included in LAMMPS and redistributed under either the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL v2) or the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL v2.1).

**Backward Compatibility**

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**Detailed Description**

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**Post Submission Checklist**

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- [ ] The pull request is complete
- [ ] The source code follows the LAMMPS formatting guidelines
- [ ] The feature has been verified to work with the conventional build system
- [ ] The feature has been verified to work with the CMake based build system
- [ ] Suitable tests have been added to the unittest tree.