important: many visit email lists going away soon

[markcmiller86]

Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 13:19:37 -0700
From: miller86 at llnl.gov (Miller, Mark C.)
This post was imported from the visit-developers@ornl.gov email archive

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Dear VisIt community,

The VisIt project will soon be replacing our email support services with GitHub
Discussions<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions>.

Upcoming important changes and dates for ALL users (any email list of the form visit-xxx at
elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-xxx at elist.ornl.gov>):

*   Now: Begin using GitHub Discussions<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions> (categories
listed below). If you don?t already have a GitHub account, please get
one<https://github.com/join?ref_cta=Sign+up&ref_loc=header+logged+out&ref_page=%2F&source=header-
home>. They are free.
*   Jun 1, 2021: New posts will still be handled by the VisIt team but will begin auto-responding
with this notice.
*   July 31, 2021: Posts after this date will be ignored by the VisIt team and will only auto-
respond with this notice.
*   December 31, 2021: various email lists will be completely removed from service.

While a few LLNL, SciDAC or ASC users may require a method of contact other than GitHub Discussions,
our historical experience indicates such situations will be extremely rare and when and if they
arise will be handled on a case by case basis.

For developers, in case you hadn?t noticed visit-developers at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-
developers at elist.ornl.gov> has already effectively been replaced by our GitHub
issues<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/issues>.

We are grateful to Oak Ridge National Labs for supporting our email lists these past 15 years.

For more details, read on...

Our discussion categories are...

*   Announcements<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/categories/announcements>: for
release and other high priority announcements (replaces visit-announce at
elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-announce at elist.ornl.gov>)
*   Help using VisIt<mailto:Help%20using%20VisIt>:  Ask the community for help using VisIt (replaces
visit-users at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-users at elist.ornl.gov> for questions about using VisIt)
*   Help building VisIt<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/categories/help-building-
visit>: Ask the community for help building and installing VisIt (replaces visit-users at
elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-users at elist.ornl.gov> for questions about building VisIt)
*   Help developing VisIt<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/categories/help-developing-
visit>: Ask the community for help developing VisIt (together with our GitHub
issues<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/issues>, replaces visit-developers at elist.ornl.gov)
*   Make VisIt better<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/categories/make-visit-better>:
Share requests and ideas to improve VisIt (replaces visit-users at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-users
at elist.ornl.gov> for enhancement requests)
*   Share cool stuff<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/categories/share-cool-stuff>:
for anyone, users and developers alike, to share share cool ways you use VisIt including pictures or
movies.

GitHub?s Discussions<https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-
discussions/participating-in-a-discussion> offers many improvements over our email lists
including...

*   Users can selectively watch and UNwatch threads of discussion.
*   Attachments (images, data files, etc.) can be much bigger.
*   Attachments won?t be inadvertently cyber filtered away.
*   Nice markdown formatting of messages is supported.
*   Messages can easily link to related messages, issues, code and/or data.
*   Posted messages can be edited after the fact to correct errors.
*   Search and sort features for finding/browsing discussions are far more powerful.
*   GitHub discussions are discoverable from search engines like Google.

We will continue to use and reply to email until July 31, 2021. After that date, the list will be
closed to any new messages and will simply auto-respond to anyone who attempts to post there. We
expect the email list will be entirely closed down by the end of the 2021 calendar year.

We expect to migrate the email archive (going back to November, 2007) to our
discussions<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions> in the coming months so that past email
history can be browsed and searched there. But, that will likely not be available until sometime
after we?ve ended email support service.

For those of you who have become accustomed to our live-customer-support issues repo, we will be
doing away with that as well and migrating all issues already logged there to our discussions.

Users can search and browse GitHub discussions without a GitHub account. However, posting messages
and managing notifications will require a GitHub account. Standard GitHub accounts are
free<https://github.com/join?ref_cta=Sign+up&ref_loc=header+logged+out&ref_page=%2F&source=header-
home> and we highly encourage our users to get one.

URL: <https://elist.ornl.gov/mailman/private/visit-
developers/attachments/20210525/4dc2ecb7/attachment.htm>

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[markcmiller86]

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:48:58 -0700
From: miller86 at llnl.gov (Miller, Mark C.)
This post was imported from the visit-developers@ornl.gov email archive

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Dear VisIt community,

Email list contact for the VisIt project have now ended. Any messages posted to any list addresses
of the form visit-xxx at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:visit-xxx at elist.ornl.gov> will be lost.

For help<https://visit-dav.github.io/visit-website/support/> please use GitHub
Discussions<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions>.

If you don?t already have a GitHub account, please get one<https://github.com/join>. They are free.

More information about our GitHub discussions including how to set up notifications is available
here<https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/wiki/Replacing-email-with-GitHub-discussions>.

Thank you to David Pugmire (and previously Jeremy Meredith) and Oak Ridge National Labs for
supporting or email list services these past 15 years.

Mark C. Miller on behalf of the VisIt<https://visit.llnl.gov/> project.

URL: <https://elist.ornl.gov/mailman/private/visit-
developers/attachments/20210801/79c081d6/attachment.htm>

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