Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=commitdiff;h=725c942c1fd54c5863adf03532d06b79a4d7e8a7
commit 725c942c1fd54c5863adf03532d06b79a4d7e8a7 Author: Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Feb 8 23:20:08 2008 +0100 docs/list-rules: initial import diff --git a/docs/index-user.txt b/docs/index-user.txt index 6ad1c02..f71313e 100644 --- a/docs/index-user.txt +++ b/docs/index-user.txt @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ Documentations: * link:packages.html[Configuration of some packages] +* link:list-rules.html[Mailing List Rules] + * link:irc-rules.html[IRC Rules] * link:gpg.html[GPG Signatures] diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt index 6be992a..0b640f4 100644 --- a/docs/index.txt +++ b/docs/index.txt @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Documentation for users: * link:packages.html[Configuration of some packages] +* link:list-rules.html[Mailing List Rules] + * link:irc-rules.html[IRC Rules] * link:gpg.html[GPG Signatures] diff --git a/docs/list-rules.txt b/docs/list-rules.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7072ac --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/list-rules.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ += Mailing List Rules + +== Introduction + +The purpose of this document is to define rules that helps the communication on +the mailing lists of Frugalware Linux. + +== Mailing Lists + +.There are 3 read-only lists +* frugalware-announce for general announcements (low traffic) +* frugalware-security for Frugalware Security Advisories +* frugalware-bugs for newly opened tasks in the Bug Tracking System (This may + be extended in future, currently you must use the web interface to comment a + task.) + +.There are 3 lists for developers +* frugalware-devel for general development questions. Every developer are + supposed to read this list. It has a moderate traffic. (Usually only a few + mails / day.) +* frugalware-git for Git commits. This is a high traffic list. Every developer + are supposed to subscribe to this list, but feel free to set 'Mail delivery' + to 'Disabled' if you don't want to receive mails. (This is required as only + subscribed users can post to prevent spam.) +* frugalware-darcs for Darcs patches. No longer used, but we keep this list as + the archive is useful sometimes. + +.There are 3 lists for users +* frugalware-forums is a bidirectional gateway between the users of the + Frugalware Forums + (link:http://forums.frugalware.org/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=34[this forum]) + and people who read the mailing lists only. The primary benefit is that not + all developers read the Forums, but mailing lists. +* frugalware-users is for general user questions. It seems the Forums are much + popular, but we still provide a mailing list for user questions. +* frugalware-users-hu is for Hungarian user questions. + +If not mentioned, then the language of the lists are English. Please use the +appropriate language. If you know of other non-English mailing lists, please +tell us, then we can include them here. + +You can subscribe to our mailing lists +link:http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo[here]. Also you can unsubscribe or +edit your options there. + +== Frugalware developers + +Developers are supposed to read the `-devel` and `-users` mailing lists, and +supposed to be subscribed to the `-git` list. + +== Off-list discussion + +We don't set a `Reply-to:` header on our mailing lists. This is intentional. If +you don't understand why this is a good decision, first please read +link:http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html[this document]. + +In practice if this is a new situation for you, then use your mail client's +'list-reply' function, as the 'reply' function will send the mail off-list +which is not something you want in most cases. + +Also please do not use the 'group-reply' function if possible, users must subscribe before they post, so you can be sure about they are not the mailing list. + +(This is different to some other projects' rules. Some projects require you to +use 'group-reply' all the time, please do not do so on our lists.) + +== Top posting and HTML messages + +Please do not link:http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html[top post] on our +lists. Also please try to avoid HTML messages, many developers use a console +mail client to read mails and reading such messages is always problematic. + +== Archives + +We have our own archive of our mailing lists +link:http://frugalware.org/pipermail/[here]. Gmane also provides +link:http://news.gmane.org/?prefix=gmane.linux.frugalware[searchable archives]. diff --git a/docs/po4a.cfg b/docs/po4a.cfg index e66c586..aa77795 100644 --- a/docs/po4a.cfg +++ b/docs/po4a.cfg @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ [type: simpletext] bugs.txt $lang:$lang/bugs.txt [type: simpletext] mobile.txt $lang:$lang/mobile.txt [type: simpletext] packages.txt $lang:$lang/packages.txt +[type: simpletext] list-rules.txt $lang:$lang/list-rules.txt [type: simpletext] irc-rules.txt $lang:$lang/irc-rules.txt [type: simpletext] gpg.txt $lang:$lang/gpg.txt [type: simpletext] makepkg.txt $lang:$lang/makepkg.txt _______________________________________________ Frugalware-git mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-git
