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How you can help

Contact us

If you are using SIMA, please consider emailing software@losonczylab.org to let us know. Knowledge of our user base is extremely helpful for planing new features, attracting volunteers, and fundraising. Words of thanks are also very encouraging to the development team.

Spread the word

Please pass along information about SIMA to people who would be interested in using it or contributing to its development.

Improve the software

We welcome contributions to the SIMA package in many forms.

Bug reports

Please report bugs to the SIMA Issue Tracker. When doing so, please adhere to the following guidelines:

  • Search the issues to make sure the problem has not already been addressed.
  • Describe the problem in detail.
  • Include a short example (e.g. a few lines) that reproduces the problem.

If you are not sure whether your problem is a bug, or simply a question about how to use SIMA, please post your question to the User Support section of the SIMA forum.

Feature requests

If you think that a new feature would make SIMA more helpful for your research, please add an issue to the Issue Tracker. When doing so, please follow the

  • Search to see if the feature has already been requested. If so, please add a comment to that issue. This comment can include additional information about your requirements or just help to give a sense of how many people desire a certain feature.
  • If the feature has not already been requested, please create a new issue with a “feature request” tag. Please be specific as possible about your requirements.

Documentation

We appreciate improvements to any parts of the documentation that are unclear, incomplete, or incorrect. Please see the Development instructions for more details on how to contribute to the documentation.

Development

To contribute to the source code, please follow the Fork & Pull model We have not developed specific guidelines for SIMA, so please follow the principles outlined in SciPy’s contributing guidelines

The efforts of SIMA contributors are coordinated through the Issue Tracker. Also, feel free to post any questions about contributing to the User Support section of the SIMA forum.