How to Contribute ================= This repository is owned by the [Accellera Systems Initiative][1] and is maintained by the [SystemC Language Working Group][2] (LWG) according to the [Accellera Policies and Procedures][3]. **Contributions to this reference implementation can only be accepted from Accellera members.** ### Join the Accellera SystemC Language Working Group If you would like to contribute to the development of SystemC and/or this reference implementation, have your company, organization, or university join Accellera and its working groups. Find out more information at http://www.accellera.org/about/join. If your company, organization or university is already an Accellera member, you can request to [join the SystemC Language Working Group here][4]. ### Join the SystemC community If you are not an Accellera member, please join the **[SystemC community forum][5]** to provide feedback, report bugs and join the general discussion around the evolution of SystemC. [1]: https://www.accellera.org [2]: https://accellera.org/activities/working-groups/systemc-language [3]: http://accellera.org/about/policies [4]: http://workspace.accellera.org/apps/org/workgroup/lwg/ [5]: https://forums.accellera.org/forum/9-systemc/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue reporting --------------------------------------------------------------------- You can post the bugs and suggestions of general interest to the [SystemC Community Forum][5]. When reporting bugs, please specify the following information (if applicable): 1. SystemC version 2. platform, compiler, flags 3. description of the problem 4. steps to reproduce the problem 5. compile/runtime warnings and errors 6. code sample, not more than 100 lines to demonstrate the problem > **Note** > All bugs will only be tested against the latest publicly available > version of the product. > **Note** > All C++ compilers that SystemC supports have bugs of different > degree of severity. We cannot fix those bugs. > Please report them to the compiler vendor. Accellera WG members have access to the WG-internal issue tracking at GitHub, as described [here][6]. [6]: docs/DEVELOPMENT.md#issue-tracking --------------------------------------------------------------------- Repository organization --------------------------------------------------------------------- The central source code repository of the Accellera SystemC implementation is hosted in two repositories at [GitHub](http://github.com). The main repositories are **private** to the [`OSCI-WG` GitHub organization][7] and can be found at: * https://github.com/OSCI-WG/systemc (core SystemC library) * https://github.com/OSCI-WG/systemc-regressions (regression test suite) A read-only, **public** copy of these repositories can be found at * https://github.com/accellera-official/systemc (core SystemC library) * https://github.com/accellera-official/systemc-regressions (regression test suite) To obtain access to the repositories and the GitHub organization in general, LWG members can contact the LWG chairs at including their GitHub account name. [7]: https://github.com/osci-wg "Accellera WG GitHub organization"