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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2014 - 10:51:34 CDT

Hi,
  Sorry for the slow reply, I'm still catching up after returning from travel.

When people develop new VMD plugins and they send me the needed
URLs and information, I am happy to link them up on the VMD documentation
pages. Many researchers have developed VMD plugins and contributed them
to be part of the standard installation, and those are already seamlessly
incorporated as part of the standard VMD distribution. To be incorporated
as part of the standard VMD distribution, plugins need to be tested on
multiple platforms, have documentation, etc. Nothing too surprising.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:10:36PM +0100, Nuno Sousa Cerqueira wrote:
> This is a pertinent question.
> Indeed several plug-ins have been developed and there is no place where
> they can be found ?
> This could be changed in order to improve the VMD community.
> Regards,
> Nuno
> _______________
> Nuno M. F. Sousa A. Cerqueira
> Chemistry Department
> Faculty of Sciences
> University of Porto
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>
> Ligado 9 Jul 2014 at 13:09:05, Vlastimil ZAma (zima_at_karlov.mff.cuni.cz)
> escreveu:
>
> Hi all,
>
> does anybody know how to contribute to VMD? I have found several minor
> bugs in last years, but I never report them since I never find out how
> to do so. I haven't found any document about contribution other than
> sparse notes in FAQ.
>
> I'd like to know
> * How do I find if bug was already reported?
> * How to report bug?
> * How to check that my fix didn't break anything else? Are there any
> tests available?
> * How to share a patch?
> * Is there any official repository with VMD source code in git or other
> modern VCS?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Vlastik 

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