------- Contact ------- In order to discuss :term:`FiPy` with other users and with the developers, we encourage you to use one of the following modes of communication. We monitor all of these, so there is no need to post to more than one of them. You may want to read the following resource about asking effective questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If you are having trouble, we are able to offer much more effective help if you provide a `minimal reproducible example `__. GitHub Discussions ================== https://github.com/usnistgov/fipy/discussions Suitable for open-ended conversations, troubleshooting, showing off… If a discussion highlights a bug or feature request, it’s easy for us to migrate `GitHub Discussions`_ to `GitHub Issues`_. GitHub Issues ============= https://github.com/usnistgov/fipy/issues Suitable for bug reports, feature requests, and patch submissions. StackOverflow ============= https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fipy Suitable for questions that (probably) have definitive answers ("How do I...?"). It doesn’t work so well for back-and-forth conversations, which are better suited to `GitHub Discussions`_. Further, it's `bad at math `_ and they tend to delete answers that link to our existing documentation, meaning that we'd need to expend considerable effort, using an inferior tool, to duplicate things we've already written. Seriously, use `GitHub Discussions`_. Mailing List ============ .. attention:: The mailing list is deprecated. Please use `GitHub Discussions`_, instead. You can sign up for the mailing list by sending a `subscription email `__ to . Once you are subscribed, you can post messages to the list simply by addressing email to . To get off the list, send a message to . Send a message to to learn other mailing list configurations you can change. The list is hosted as a Google group. If you are subscribed with a Google account, you can interact with the list, configure your subscription, and see the archives at https://list.nist.gov/fipy. List Archive ------------ https://www.mail-archive.com/fipy@list.nist.gov/ Copies of messages sent to fipy@list.nist.gov are stored at `The Mail Archive`_. Older messages are archived at https://www.mail-archive.com/fipy@nist.gov/. (note: we have also historically sent copies to http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.fipy, but the GMANE_ site now appears to be defunct_.) .. _The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com .. _GMANE: http://gmane.org/ .. _defunct: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/