Contributing and Instructions for Developers

We aspire to make DFT-FE a community project. We welcome any contributions from the community in form of bug fixes, new features, performance-improvements etc. which can help improve DFT-FE code. Below we mention some guidelines for contributing to the development of DFT-FE

For obtaining the development version, clone the development branch of our github repository directly on the command line via

git clone -b publicGitHubDevelop https://github.com/dftfeDevelopers/dftfe

We also suggest the following modification to the dealii installation before running CPU ctests: https://github.com/dftfeDevelopers/dealii/commit/513f5a4f611897313aeadf4e3b0dd11a97782b4c