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<h2>Release Process</h2> | |
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<h2>Mail Guidelines</h2> | |
<p>Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people | |
involved in it. Mailing lists provide a simple and effective | |
communication mechanism.</p> | |
<p>You are welcome to join any of our mailing lists (or all of them | |
if you wish). You can choose to lurk, or actively participate. It's | |
up to you.</p> | |
<p><b>Before you join these lists, you should make sure that you | |
read and follow the information below.</b></p> | |
<p>We ask that you do your best to respect the charter of the | |
appropriate mailing list. There are generally two types of lists | |
that you can join.</p> | |
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<li>The "User" list is where you should send questions and comments | |
about configuration, setup, usage and other "user" type of | |
questions.</li> | |
<li>The "Developer" list is where you should send questions and | |
comments about the actual software source code and general | |
"development" type of questions.</li> | |
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<p><b>Summary : Prefix each message subject with | |
"[Axis2]"</b><br /> | |
You may already know that Axis 1.x is still going parallel with | |
Axis 2.0. So for everyone's convenience, prefix the subject of | |
<b>every mail</b> about Axis 2.0 with [Axis2].</p> | |
<p><b>Summary: Join the lists that are appropriate for your | |
discussion.</b><br /> | |
Please make sure that you are joining the list that is appropriate | |
for the topic or product that you would like to discuss.</p> | |
<p><b>Summary: Do not abuse resources in order to get | |
help.</b><br /> | |
Asking your configuration or user type of question on the | |
developers list because you think that you will get help more | |
quickly by going directly to the developers instead of to the user | |
base is not very nice. Chances are that doing this will actually | |
prevent people from answering your question because it is clear | |
that you are trying to abuse resources.</p> | |
<p><b>Summary: Do your best to ensure that you are not sending HTML | |
or "Stylelized" email to the list.</b><br /> | |
If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express or Eudora, chances are | |
that you are sending HTML email by default. There is usually a | |
setting that will allow you to send "Plain Text" email. If you are | |
using Microsoft products to send email, there are several bugs in | |
the software that prevent you from turning off the sending of HTML | |
email. Please read this page as well.</p> | |
<p><b>Summary: Watch where you are sending email.</b><br /> | |
The majority of our mailing lists have set the Reply-To to go back | |
to the list. That means that when you Reply to a message, it will | |
go to the list and not to the original author directly. The reason | |
is because it helps facilitate discussion on the list for everyone | |
to benefit from. Be careful of this as sometimes you may intend to | |
reply to a message directly to someone instead of the entire | |
list.</p> | |
<p><b>Summary: Do not crosspost messages.</b><br /> | |
In other words, pick a mailing list and send your messages to that | |
mailing list only. Do not send your messages to multiple mailing | |
lists. The reason is that people may be subscribed to one list and | |
not to the other. Therefore, some people may only see half of the | |
conversation.</p> | |
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