ATLAS Offline software
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Welcome to [ATLAS](https://atlas.ch) Athena software!

To contribute to this project, follow our [git tutorial](https://atlassoftwaredocs.web.cern.ch/gittutorial/). In particular, if you fork this project *please do not forget* to [add the ATLAS Robot as a developer](https://atlassoftwaredocs.web.cern.ch/gittutorial/gitlab-fork/).

For ATLAS members, please see the [Atlas Computing Twiki](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/AtlasComputing) for even more information.

Branches
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The following major branches are currently active:

Branch                                                            | Purpose                      | Main Project, Release Series
------------------------------------------------------------------| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------
[21.0](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/21.0)             | Tier0 and MC16c              | Athena, 21.0.X
[21.0-mc16a](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/21.0-mc16a) | MC16a bugfixes               | Athena, 21.0.20.Y
[21.0-mc16d](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/21.0-mc16d) | MC16d bugfixes               | Athena, 21.0.20.Y
[21.2](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/21.2)             | Derivations and Analysis     | AthDerivations + (Ath)AnalysisBase, 21.2.X
[21.6](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/21.6)             | Event Generation             | AthGeneration, 21.6.X
[22.0](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/22.0)             | Run-3 Tier0 and Point1       | Athena, 22.0.X
[master](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/tree/master)         | Development, Analysis, Derivations | all projects

Links
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- The [ATLAS webpage](https://atlas.ch) will tell you all about the ATLAS experiment (for ATLAS members, the collaboration webpage is [here](https://atlas-collaboration.web.cern.ch/))
- The [Twiki](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/AtlasComputing) is the main source of documentation, and has many links to sub-domains
- The [software documentation](https://atlassoftwaredocs.web.cern.ch) page is the main entry point for tutorials, etc.
- The git repository is [here](https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena)
- The [ATLAS Nightlies and CI page](https://bigpanda.cern.ch/globalview/) shows the build status of all nightlies
- The [Doxygen code documentation](https://atlas-sw-doxygen.web.cern.ch/atlas-sw-doxygen/atlas_22.0.X-DOX/docs/html/index.html) is available for the master branch
- To cite Athena, you can use the following zenodo [DOI](https://zenodo.org/record/2641997)