Why Community?
The yt project views community engagement, community involvement and community growth as absolutely essential to the health and success of a scientific software project. We have deliberately worked to grow a helpful, sustainable community of peers and contributors.
There are many ways to find information, ask for assistance, contribute code or scripts, or even just meet people involved with the project.
Mailing Lists and Bug Reports
There are three primary mailing lists for yt, each of which caters to a different area of interest. These are probably the single best way to get help with someone, to suggest a feature, or to discuss anything with other yt users.
- yt-users for usage help, questions and answers, and general discussion.
- yt-dev for development-related discussions.
yt also has a bug tracker which you can browse or create new issues inside. This is a good way to report a problem that is definitely a problem with yt, so that it doesn't get lost and will be addressed.
Chatting on IRC and Slack
On FreeNode there is a channel called #yt for chatting with other yt users. You can join IRC using Adium, IRSSI, X-chat or any other IRC client by connecting to chat.freenode.org. Feel free to stop by, say hello, or ask questions -- you don't need to have a problem with yt to come by and chat!
In case you don't have an IRC client, we also have a web client that will connect you directly to our channel.
We also hang out and chat about development on slack. If you would like to join us, please send us your name and email to get an invitation using the button on the right.
If nobody answers your question right away, it might just mean that nobody is around right then. Usually the channel is the busiest during the day, US time. Go ahead and ask, and when somebody sees and is able to answer, they probably will!
Sharing Scripts, Projects and Notebooks
The yt Data Hub is designed to be a place to facilitate easy sharing of data, projects of interest to others, as well as Jupyter Notebooks. For very short form items, we also provide a pastebin.
Social Networking
yt has a presence on twitter, where occasional updates are posted. Another place for short-form updates is the facebook page.
yt also has a blog, where longer-form content can be found. The blog itself is open for submissions -- all you have to do is visit the blog repository, fork, and issue a pull request! We'd love to have your submissions of papers you've recently published with yt, interesting tips and tricks, or anything else that others might be interested in.
yt Community Code of Conduct
The community of participants in open source Scientific projects is made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences success and continued growth. We expect everyone in our community to follow these guidelines when interacting with others both inside and outside of our community. Our goal is to keep ours a positive, inclusive, successful, and growing community.
As members of the community,
- We pledge to treat all people with respect and provide a harassment- and bullying-free environment, regardless of sex, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In particular, sexual language and imagery, sexist, racist, or otherwise exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.
- We pledge to respect the work of others by recognizing acknowledgment/citation requests of original authors. As authors, we pledge to be explicit about how we want our own work to be cited or acknowledged.
- We pledge to welcome those interested in joining the community, and realize that including people with a variety of opinions and backgrounds will only serve to enrich our community. In particular, discussions relating to pros/cons of various technologies, programming languages, and so on are welcome, but these should be done with respect, taking proactive measure to ensure that all participants are heard and feel confident that they can freely express their opinions.
- We pledge to welcome questions and answer them respectfully, paying particular attention to those new to the community. We pledge to provide respectful criticisms and feedback in forums, especially in discussion threads resulting from code contributions.
- We pledge to be conscientious of the perceptions of the wider community and to respond to criticism respectfully. We will strive to model behaviors that encourage productive debate and disagreement, both within our community and where we are criticized. We will treat those outside our community with the same respect as people within our community.
- We pledge to help the entire community follow the code of conduct, and to not remain silent when we see violations of the code of conduct. We will take action when members of our community violate this code such as contacting confidential@yt-project.org (all emails sent to this address will be treated with the strictest confidence) or talking privately with the person.
This code of conduct applies to all community situations online and offline, including mailing lists, forums, social media, conferences, meetings, associated social events, and one-to-one interactions.
The yt Community Code of Conduct was adapted from the Astropy Community Code of Conduct, which was partially inspired by the PSF code of conduct.