Title:     About the Community
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Apache Taverna is a [incubator project](http://incubator.apache.org/) within the
[The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)](http://www.apache.org/).

Taverna is an open source community that's organized by its
[members](/about), including you!
Whether you're running or
[writing workflows](#contribute),
[developing plugins](#contribute),
[hosting a Taverna server](#contribute),
[hosting a service](#contribute),
[hacking the core](#contribute),
[citing us](#citing-taverna), or just want to
[edit](#contribute) these pages
there are opportunities for you to
[get in touch and ask questions](#contact),
[contribute](#contribute) or
[report a bug](#reportbugs).


<a name="mailinglists"></a>
## How to Communicate
### Mailing Lists

You are highly encouraged to participate on the Apache Taverna [mailing lists](/community/lists):

<table class="table table-condensed">
<tr>
  <th> Users </th>
  <td> Build/run workflows; analytical science; services</td>
  <td>
    <a class="btn btn-primary" href="mailto:users-subscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Subscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="mailto:users-unsubscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Unsubscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://lists.apache.org/list.html?users@taverna.apache.org" role="button">Archives</a>
    <a class="btn btn-link" href="/community/lists#users" role="button">More info</a>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <th> Developers &nbsp;</th>
  <td> Coding on/with Taverna; workflow/provenance science  &nbsp;</td>
  <td>
    <a class="btn btn-primary" href="mailto:dev-subscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Subscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="mailto:dev-unsubscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Unsubscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@taverna.apache.org" role="button">Archives</a>
    <a class="btn btn-link" href="/community/lists#dev" role="button">More info</a>
  </td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <th> Commits  &nbsp;</th>
  <td> Code changes; automated build reports  &nbsp;</td>
  <td>
    <a class="btn btn-primary" href="mailto:commits-subscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Subscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="mailto:commits-unsubscribe@taverna.incubator.apache.org" role="button">Unsubscribe</a>
    <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://lists.apache.org/list.html?commits@taverna.apache.org" role="button">Archives</a>
    <a class="btn btn-link" href="/community/lists#commits" role="button">More info</a>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>


To receive messages from a list, and to be able to post to it, you need to be *subscribed*:

 - Send an empty message to the **Subscribe** address from above (any message text will be ignored)
 - Wait for the **response** email with a subject like *Confirm subscribe to users@taverna*
 - To **confirm subscription**, reply with an empty message
 - You should now be subscribed to the list

Unsubscribing is done in the same way, using the *Unsubscribe* address instead.

See the [mailing list](/community/lists) page for more details.

### Web chat

Some of the Apache Taverna users and developers occasionally hang out on the
[Gitter chat apache/taverna](/community/chat).


<a name="reportbugs"></a>
### Report or track a bug

Use the Apache Taverna JIRA [issue tracker](/community/issue-tracker) to report or track a bug.


## Citing Taverna

If you use Taverna in your academic work, you can [cite](/community/cite) one of the
[publications about Taverna](/community/publications).
We also track papers that
[reference Taverna](/community/references), so feel free to
[raise an issue](issue-tracker) or
[suggest a webpage edit](/community/edit) to add
your own publications to these lists.  

<a name="contribute"></a>
## How to Contribute

 - **Workflows.** The best place to contribute Taverna workflows is on
     [myExperiment](http://www.myexperiment.org).

 - **Code.** We welcome any contributions for the [source code](/download/code/) of Apache Taverna. See how to [contribute code](/download/code/#contribute-to-apache-taverna).

 - **Plugins.** The mechanism for writing *Apache Taverna 3 plugins* is still under development. Please contact the [dev@taverna](/community/lists#devtaverna) mailing list for details. (For *Taverna 2* (pre-Apache), see the [Creating plugins for Taverna 2](http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/developer/Creating+plugins+for+Taverna+2) tutorial.)

- **Host a Taverna Server.** For information on hosting a Taverna Server to run Taverna workflows, see the [Server](/documentation/server) Section.

- **Host a Service.** For information on writing web services to be used in Taverna, see our [Web Service Developers](/documentation/web-service-developers) Section. We recommend that your services are registered in Registries such as: [BioCatalogue](http://www.biocatalogue.org)

- **Edit the website.** This website is always under development. Please help make it better by [editing](/community/edit) or adding pages.


## Incubator status

* [Taverna incubator status](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/taverna.html).
* [Graduation Maturity Assessment](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAVERNADEV/2016-03+Taverna+Graduation+Maturity+Assessment)

Apache Taverna is an effort undergoing incubation at
[The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)](http://apache.org/)
sponsored by the [Apache Incubator PMC](http://incubator.apache.org/).
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review
indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process
have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects.
While [incubation status](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/taverna.html)
is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or
stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully
endorsed by the ASF.