WELCOME: Forum Rules and Expectations

[brettfiedler]

What this forum is for:

• Questions, comments, and ideas around the use and improvement of SceneryStack, created and maintained by the developers at PhET Interactive Simulations - and possibly you!
• We welcome input and contributions from the community toward improving our code and documentation.

Alternative channels:

• To make a bug fix or contribution to a specific common code repository, please create an issue or pull request in that repository. Check out our contributing guidelines (CONTRIBUTING.md) for ways to contribute to the repositories. If you are unclear about which repository to create an issue, please ask in the Q&A category.
• To request new PhET Simulations or new features in PhET Simulations, follow the links on the Getting Started section of the Help Center.
• For help or questions related to using PhET Simulations, please see our website or e-mail [email protected].
• To report a problem for a specific PhET Simulation. Open the PhET menu on the navigation bar of the simulation and select “Report a Problem…” to submit a bug report using the provided form.

What you can expect from us:

• Announce important changes to the common code repositories that may impact your use or contributions (see BREAKING CHANGES)
• Enforce our Code of Conduct to support a welcoming community.

What we expect from you:

• Read our CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, GitHub’s policies, and our CONTRIBUTING.md before creating or contributing to a discussion or to the codebase.
• When posting a question or problem, provide context. What problem are you trying to solve? What are the exact steps to recreate the problem for others to reproduce?
• Help and respond to others that post to the forum. Have you encountered a similar problem or tried to implement a similar feature? Share your experiences!
• Share with us what you are using PhET code for! Share in the Show and Tell category.