Developer Discussion Forum
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Discussion on developing GROMACS and related software are hosted at the `GROMACS forum`_. Under the category `Developer discussion`_ you can discuss ideas and intentions related to the development of GROMACS.

* **Do not post any questions about using the GROMACS application or performing
  simulations to this category.** See `User discussions`_ category for that. The developers discussion is only for question related to software development related to GROMACS (such as contributing to GROMACS or using GROMACS as a library). 
* Subscribe to `GROMACS forum`_, and  change your account preference by clicking your name at the top-right side. **It is important that you subscribe with your mail address exactly as it appears in the headers of the mails you send if you want to use the forum in mailing-list mode, otherwise your posts will be rejected!**
* You can then send a request to join the GROMACS developers group to be able to post your discussion topics. 
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* Browse previous messages through the  `Developer discussion`_ forum. You can also browse the old mailing-list `gmx-developers Archives`_ page for messages before 20 October 2022. 
* Note that in one thing the forum differs from the mailing list: post editing is allowed in the forum.

.. _`GROMACS forum`: http://forums.gromacs.org 

.. _`Developer discussion`: https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/c/gromacs-developers/10

.. _`User discussions`: https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/c/gromacs-user-forum/5   
   
.. _`gmx-developers Archives`: https://mailman-1.sys.kth.se/pipermail/gromacs.org_gmx-developers/