# How to contribute
You can contribute to this project, even as an ordinary user, by:

1. subscribing and participating in the [users' mailing list](https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users), answering other people's questions
and doubts;

2. suggesting improvements and reporting bugs, either to the [developers mailing list](https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/developers),
or using the [Issue section](https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/issues) of the gitlab repository.

Information on the mailing lists and on how to report bugs can be found in the
[Quantum ESPRESSO web site](https://www.quantum-espresso.org), "Contacts" section.

You can contribute even more by:

3.  preparing new tests for the test suite: see the
[Wiki page](https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/wikis/Developers/Test-suite-and-test-farm);

4.  improving the documentation;

5.  porting to new/unsupported architectures or configurations;

6.  implementing new features, or improving existing ones.

For more information, consult the documentation for developers in the
[Wiki](https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/wikis/home)
