Moving to GitHub Discussions

[Rocco Meli]

Dear MDAnalysis community,

Our Google groups have been the main way to ask questions, exchange ideas, and to discuss about development. However, with more modern solutions available we felt a change was needed.

The MDAnalysis Core Developers considered different alternatives and after lengthy discussions we settled on moving the Google groups to GitHub Discussions. This will have multiple advantages, including proper code formatting and cross-linking between issues and discussions.

GitHub Discussions are already enabled on GitHub and can be used right away: please start using the Discussions forum, instead of the Google groups.

GitHub discussions are divided into categories, and we will have the following (and more):

• Q&A: for asking questions about MDAnalysis usage, the equivalent of the “mdanalysis-discussion“ mailing list
• Development: for discussions about MDAnalysis development, the equivalent of the “mdanalysis-develop” mailing list

We hope to see all of you in the new GitHub Discussions forum! The mailing lists will remain open for a bit longer to finish off open discussions, after which they will be archived (accessible as read-only).

Rocco Meli

(For the MDAnalysis Core Developers team)