Mailing Lists

• GBBopen Announcements      subscribe/unsubscribe     view archive

  gbbopen-announce is the official GBBopen announcement list. Only major project and other milestone announcements will be made on this list (very low traffic).

• GBBopen Users List      subscribe/unsubscribe     view archive

  gbbopen-list is the main GBBopen user list (low traffic). Questions, suggestions, and general technical discussion should be made on this list. You must be a list subscriber to post.

• GBBopen Developers      subscribe/unsubscribe     view archive

  gbbopen-developer is the GBBopen developer list (low traffic). Anyone interested in contributing to or following GBBopen development discussions is welcome to join this list. You must be a list subscriber to post.

• GBBopen Commits      subscribe/unsubscribe

  gbbopen-commits is the GBBopen repository commits mailing list. Commits involving significant differences that produce large summary descriptions (and large e-mail messages) are not sent to this list. These major commits are usually announced in the gbbopen-announce list or in a brief, manually generated, e-mail notice sent to the gbbopen-developer mailing list. Anyone interested in receiving automated post-commit e-mail messages is welcome to join this list. Only the GBBopen repository posts to this list.

If you need help or advice, the GBBopen Users list is the place to ask (should the GBBopen Tutorial and archived messages from the GBBopen Users list come up short). There is also a GBBopen fan page on facebook for comments and discussion.

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• What about spammers?

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• I'm not getting any mail anymore from a list. Is it down?

  List volume is low and irregular, so the lack of mail is not a reliable indicator of a problem. Please don't post a test message to everyone asking if a list is down! If you really suspect that there is a problem receiving list messages (perhaps due to an overzealous spam filter along the delivery chain), contact us at bugs@GBBopen.org.