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title: Mailing lists and IRC

Mailing lists and IRC

Mailing list etiquette

Please consider the following before posting Emails to the lists:

• No posts with html.
• No cross posting.
• Change the subject when appropriate (meaning when the conversation topic has shifted to something other than the old subject line).
• Start threads with tags for tracking different kinds of subjects. So far we have the following for the dev list:
  • [ApacheDS]
  • [Studio]
  • [Site]
  • [Fortress]
  • [Kerby]
  • [SCIMple]
  • [Community]
  • [Release]
  • [VOTE]
  • [OT]

An article by Eric Steven Raymond very worth reading is found here: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.

Project mailing lists

These are the mailing lists that have been established for this project. We haven't a distinguished mailing list for each of the sub-projects : if you have questions about Escimo, Mavibot or ApacheDS, for instance, you have to use the Directory Users or Developpers mailing list.

Subscribing

Subscribing to one of the existing mailing lists is only a matter of sending an empty mail (no subject, no content) to (mailing list name)-subscribe@directory.apache.org. You can find the list of mailing list names in the table below. For instance, to subscribe to the dev mailing list, send a mail to dev-subscribe@directory.apache.org.

Unsubscribing

Unsubscribing from one of the existing mailing lists is only a matter of sending an empty mail (no subject, no content) to (mailing list name)-unsubscribe@directory.apache.org. You can find the list of mailing list names in the table below. For instance, to unsubscribe from the dev mailing list, send a mail to dev-unsubscribe@directory.apache.org.

Existing Mailing lists

For each list, there is a subscribe, unsubscribe, and an archive link:

Name	Description	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	Archive
dev	The Directory Developers List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org
users	The Directory Users List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org
commits	The Directory Commits List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	—	mail-archives.apache.org
api	The LDAP API List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org
fortress	The Fortress List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org
kerby	The Kerby List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org
scimple	The SCIMple List	Subscribe	Unsubscribe	Post	mail-archives.apache.org

IRC channels

• Users IRC channel: #apache-directory @ irc://irc.freenode.net
• Developers IRC channel: #apache-directory-dev @ irc://irc.freenode.net
• Fortress IRC channel: #apache-fortress @ irc://irc.freenode.net