Mailing lists provide a way for developers and other interested parties to communicate with one another about aspects of a project, and to receive module announcements. In general, the way mailing lists work depends upon the type of module:

• Open source module mailing lists are available to any subscriber, but may be granted limited membership by the module owners.

• Proprietary module mailing lists are always private; only approved subscribers, usually module members, may join.

Development modules on this site include one or more of the following mailing lists:

The main list for developers to discuss specific module development issues and requirements for version control in the project.

Automated notifications of file version control changes and discussion of those changes.

Announcements of new releases and other major module events.

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Automated notifications and discussions of the project's reported issues (defects, enhancements, features, tasks, and patches) and changes made to issues, such as reassignment, comments, or resolution.

A more general discussion list for the project's end users.

You can subscribe or unsubscribe to mailing lists for a particular module by selecting "Mailing Lists" in the Module Resources tool bar.

The Module Mail page includes subscribe/unsubscribe links for either a message-by-message or digest version of the list, as well as options to view each module list's archives.

To begin the subscription process, click on the hyperlinked mailing list address to which you want to subscribe and send the message from your email client.

You should receive a response asking for a confirmation. After you reply as indicated in the email, you will receive an email welcoming you and acknowledging your successful mailing list subscription. Follow the same process for unsubscribing, but substitute the unsubscribe link.

Once on the Mailing Lists page, you can view the module mailing list archives by clicking on the "view archive" link next to the mailing list title for that list. Click on the date range and subject links to specify the sort of messages you want to see.

All mailing lists associated with the module are listed here. The links on this page allow you to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the available mailing lists.

Most lists also have a corresponding "digest" version -- if you subscribe to this you receive a single daily email with all of that day's postings.

Posting a message

To post a message to a mailing list for a project, send your message to:

For example, to post a message to the developer mailing list in module platform, send email to:

Getting help

To get an automated help message for a mailing list, send a blank email message to:

For example, for the dev mailing list in module platform, send email to:

Contact list moderator

To communicate with the list moderator, send an email message to:

Project/component mailing list archiving is handled by EyeBrowse, an open source tool that stores and indexes list messages, providing multiple options for browsing, reading, and searching mailing list archives via a web browser. Beyond storing messages, EyeBrowse adds a database and text indexing engine to handle rapid message search and retrieval.

To view a mailing list's archives, select the Mailing List option in the Module Resources tool bar to see a list of all mailing lists for that project. Click on the View Archive link next to the list you want to view. The default view for browsing mailing list archives is by date summary. Other summary views available are: by Author, by Subject, and by Thread.

You can use the Search Archive link to add filters to your search criteria. You can enter a search text and choose to sort by Subject, Author, or Body by choosing one from the drop down box under the text box. You can also search text strings of the archived messages using simple Boolean operators.