Should I open an issue or a discussion?

[sebwolf-de]

Dear SeisSol user,
thank you for coming to us with a question. We are always happy to hear about your experiences with SeisSol to grow our community and develop SeisSol further.
If you have encountered any difficulty with SeisSol, there are two ways of how to interact with the core developer team: issues or discussions.

Discussions

If you have a problem using SeisSol, please open a discussion. This could include things like:

• How do I set up a model (mesh, material parameters, ...).
• How do I interpret/visualize results.
• How can I tune SeisSol for performance on my cluster.

Issues

If you encounter a possible bug or you have a feature, which is not implemented yet, you should open an issue. With an issue, you indicate that you want to get something in the code changed. This could include things like:

• Compilation errors
• Runtime errors (e.g. segmentation faults)
• New features (e.g. material models, friction laws, ...)