Gentoo Mailing Lists Andrea Barisani Sascha Schwabbauer Curtis Napier Kurt Lieber Robin H. Johnson Gentoo public mailing lists 3.95 2008-12-28 Mailing Lists

The Gentoo free software project has a number of public mailing lists, covering a variety of Gentoo-related subjects. Our mailing lists are powered by mlmmj and provides List-Id: mail headers and [listname] subject prefixes to comply with modern mailing list manager standards and conventions.

One interacts with mlmmj via email. To subscribe to a list, send an empty email to:

listname+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org

Replace 'listname' with the actual name of the list that you want to subscribe to, e.g.: gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org to subscribe to the gentoo-user mailing list.

Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:

listname@lists.gentoo.org

To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:

listname+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org

All of our lists also have a corresponding digest list. Digest lists will mail a single email to you every couple of days, rather than individual emails for each post. If you are subscribed to the digest variant and wish to be unsubscribed, you must specifically unsubscribe from the digest variant. Using the email address that you wish to (un)subscribe, send an empty email to the following addresses to subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists respectively:

listname+subscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org
listname+unsubscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org

Some users may want to post to the list, but not actually receive mail from it (such as those who read lists via an alternate method, such as gmane). These users may subscribe to the "nomail" option of each list:

listname+subscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org
listname+unsubscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org

You can learn more about the capabilities of mlmmj by sending an empty mail to the following address:

listname+help@lists.gentoo.org

You can also learn more about the Gentoo mailing list system by reading the short Gentoo mailing list FAQ that appears later in this document.

Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists gentoo-userGeneral Gentoo user support and discussion mailing listgentoo-announceGeneral Gentoo announcements list (new releases, security fixes)gentoo-devGeneral Gentoo developer discussion mailing listgentoo-dev-announceGentoo development-specific announcements listgentoo-projectFor the discussion of non-technical matters in Gentoogentoo-securityFor the discussion of security issues and fixesgentoo-gmnGentoo Monthly Newslettergentoo-docFor documentation contributions, suggestions, improvements and translationsgentoo-doc-cvsSubscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes regarding our documentationgentoo-commitsSubscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes in the CVS and SVN trees. This is a high-traffic read-only list!gentoo-translatorsFor discussion of document translation issuesgentoo-ppc-userFor Gentoo Linux/PowerPC user support and discussiongentoo-ppc-devFor Gentoo Linux/PowerPC developer discussiongentoo-alphaFor Gentoo Linux/Alpha user support and discussiongentoo-amd64For Gentoo Linux/AMD64 user support and discussiongentoo-hppaDiscussions about running Gentoo on the HPPA architecturegentoo-ia64For Gentoo Linux/ia64 user support and discussiongentoo-mipsDiscussions about running Gentoo on the MIPS architecturegentoo-sparcFor Gentoo Linux/Sparc user support and discussiongentoo-bsdDiscussion about Gentoo/BSDgentoo-xboxDiscussion about Gentoo for Xboxgentoo-cygwinFor Gentoo cygwin user support and discussiongentoo-altDiscussion about the Gentoo on Alternate Platforms Projectgentoo-kernelRelease announcements for gentoo-sources, vesafb-tng, fbsplash and discussiongentoo-laptopDiscussion on powersaving, pcmcia and other laptop-related stuffgentoo-desktopMailing list devoted to Gentoo on the desktopgentoo-desktop-researchDiscussions about improving the Gentoo desktop experiencegentoo-performanceDiscussions about improving the performance of Gentoogentoo-hardenedFor a security hardened version of Gentoogentoo-portage-devPortage Internals and Portage Interface Development Discussiongentoo-catalystMailinglist dedicated to catalystgentoo-serverDiscussions about Gentoo in production environmentsgentoo-adminDiscussion about Gentoo Linux administration issuesgentoo-clusterDiscussions about Gentoo in clustered environmentsgentoo-devhelpDiscussion and help with ebuild developement issues for usersgentoo-web-userDiscussion of web configuration and administration related to Gentoo's web toolsgentoo-embeddedFor Gentoo Linux/embedded user and developer discussiongentoo-extreme-securityDiscussion about the Gentoo Extreme Security projectgentoo-relengMailinglist for the Gentoo release management teamgentoo-prMailinglist for all Gentoo public-relation discussiongentoo-qaDiscussions about QA and its improvement within Gentoogentoo-devrelGentoo Developer Relations mailing listgentoo-userrelGentoo User Relations mailing listgentoo-councilGentoo Council mailing listgentoo-mirrorsAnnouncements and discussion among Gentoo mirror admins and developers regarding releases and other issuesgentoo-dev-langDiscussion of programming language support and related issues in Gentoogentoo-perlDiscussion of perl on Gentoogentoo-javaDiscussion about Java on Gentoogentoo-scienceDiscussion on science-related applications and integration in Gentoogentoo-mediaDiscussion about Gentoo media packagesgentoo-gnustepDiscussion about GNUstep on Gentoogentoo-installerDiscussion about the Gentoo Linux Installer Projectgentoo-accessibilityDiscussion about the Gentoo Accessibility Projectgentoo-scireDiscussion about the Systems Configuration, Installation and Replication Environment Projectgentoo-ukDiscussion within United Kingdom developers and UK based events organisationgentoo-auDiscussion within Australian developers and local events organisationgentoo-forum-translationsGentoo Forums translations listgentoo-socDiscussion on Gentoo activities related to Google's Summer of Codegentoo-devconferenceDiscussion on Gentoo Developer Conferencegentoo-nxDiscussion about NX on Gentoogentoo-lispDiscussion about Lisp on Gentoogentoo-vdrDiscussion about VDR on Gentoogentoo-nfpThe Gentoo NFP/Trustees Mailing listgentoo-scmDiscussion about migration of primary Gentoo repositories to alternate SCMs.gentoo-pmsDiscussion about the Gentoo Package Manager Specification.
List name Description
Non-English Mailing Lists gentoo-user-dedeutschsprachige Gentoo User Diskussionslistegentoo-user-brBrazilian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-elGreek Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-esLista para la ayuda y discusion de usuarios hispano-hablantes de Gentoogentoo-user-frFrench Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-huHungarian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-idIndonesian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-krKorean Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-nlDutch Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-plPolish Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-csCzech and Slovak Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-ruRussian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-gwn-deGerman Gentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-gwn-esSpanish Gentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-gwn-frFrench Gentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-gwn-nlDutch Gentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-gwn-plPolish Gentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-doc-deGerman Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-elGreek Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-es Lista de correo dedicada a la traduccion y creacion de documentacion en Espanol de Gentoo gentoo-doc-fiFinnish Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-frFrench Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-huHungarian Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-idIndonesian Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-docs-itItalian Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-ltLithuanian Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-nlDutch Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-plPolish Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-ruRussian Gentoo Documentation Translation List
List name Description
Other Mailing Lists libconfFor the discussion of libconf developmentbug-wranglers Special-purpose list for the Gentoo Bug Wranglers. This mailing list is by invite only. If you are interested in joining, simply get active on bugzilla and help our existing members wrangle bugs. You'll get noticed and invited to be a bug-wrangler in due course. www-redesignDedicated to the development of the new Gentoo website
List name Description
Archives

Gentoo mailing list archives are collected on
archives.gentoo.org.

The following sites also host archives of most of the mailing lists.
Gmane
MARC: Mailing list ARChives
Mail-Archive

Mailing List Mini-FAQ

I subscribed to a list using my home email address, but I can't post to the list from work. What do I do to fix this?

To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately, mlmmj supports "nomail" subscriptions, allowing you to register alternate email addresses that can be used only for posting to the list. Here's an example of how this works. Let's say you subscribed to the gentoo-dev list as jim@home.com, but you'd also like to post to the list using your james@work.com email address. To do this, send a message (as james@work.com) to gentoo-dev+subscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org You should then be allowed to post to gentoo-dev using both your home and work email addresses.

I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do this?

Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For list listname, this would be done by sending empty emails to the following two addresses:

listname+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org
listname+subscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org

How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo mailing list messages?

To filter incoming mail arriving from list listname, use the following procmail recipe: 

:0:
* ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org
Mail/listname

This is identical to how you'd filter incoming Mailman mailing list manager emails.

Misc list policies.

HTML email is discouraged, but not forbidden (there are some MUA, specifically web-based that make it very hard to disable HTML entirely). Beware that some users may have their recieving side configured to hide HTML entirely, so it might look like you are ignored, especially if you sent HTML-only email. In order of preference, you should endeavour to send: text/plain, multipart with text/plain before text/html, text/html. MIME is acceptable and widely used.

Please do not send any vacation or out of office messages to the list. In the interests of reducing list spam, if you set any auto-responding message that goes to the lists, we will unsubscribe your account from ALL lists. Any previously subscribed addresses that send mail server messages to the lists will also be removed.